Language change progress or decay?
This book attempts to answer such questions by giving a lucid and up-to-date overview of language change. Why do people sometimes leave off the ends of words when they speak? Is it sloppiness, progress, or inevitable erosion? This book attempts to answer such questions by giving a lucid and up-to-d...
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Cambridge, England New York
Cambridge University Press
© 1991
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| Edition: | 2nd editiom |
| Series: | Cambridge approaches to linguistics
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| 505 | 0 | |a Part I. Preliminaries. 1. The ever-whirling wheel -- 2. Collecting up clues -- 3. Charting the changes --- Part II. Transition. 4. Spreading the word -- 5. Conflicting loyalties -- 6. Catching on and taking off -- 7. Caught in the web -- Part III. Causation 8. The reason why -- 9. Doing what comes naturally -- 10. Repairing the patterns -- 11. The Mad Hatter's Tea-Party -- Part IV. Beginnings and Endings. 12. Development and breakdown -- 13. Language birth -- 14. Language death -- 15. Progress or decay? | |
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