Language change
In Language Change , R. L. Trask uses data from English and other languages to introduce the concepts central to language change. This book covers the most frequent types of language change and how languages are born and die uses data-based exercises to show how languages change looks at other key...
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| Language: | English |
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London New York
Routledge
© 1994
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| Series: | Language workbooks
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Table of Contents:
- Language is always changing
- English in the past
- Borrowing words
- Creating words
- Change in pronunciation
- Change in spelling
- Change in grammar
- Change in meaning
- The origin of dialects
- Relatedness between languages
- More remote relations
- The birth and death of languages
- Attitudes towards language change
- Putting it all together