Explaining Language Change: An Evolutionary Approach

ISBN-10
0582356784
ISBN-13
9780582356788
Category
Language Arts & Disciplines
Pages
287
Language
English
Published
2000
Publisher
Addison-Wesley Longman Limited
Author
William Croft

Description

William Croft's text weaves together recent research findings from sociolinguistics, historical linguistics, grammatical change, pragmatics, social variation, language contact and genetic linguistics.

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