Through integrating different perspectives on language change, this book explores the enormous on-going linguistic upheavals in the wake of the global dominance of English. Combining empirical research with theoretical approaches, it will appeal to researchers and graduate students of English, and also of other languages studying language change.
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This textbook analyses changes from every area of grammar and addresses recent developments in socio-historical linguistics.
This is a general introduction to the methods and principles behind English linguistics study, suitable for students at advanced level and beyond.
In Language Change , R. L. Trask uses data from English and other languages to introduce the concepts central to language change.
Rudi Keller's book is an exciting contribution to linguistic philosophy becuase it puts language change back on the linguistics agenda and demonstrates that, far from being a remote mystery, it can and should be explained.
This collection brings together Peter Trudgill's essays on the sociolinguistic aspects of historical linguistics for the first time.
In this student-friendly text, Jones and Singh explore the phenomenon of language change, with a particular focus on the social contexts of its occurrence and possible motivations, including speakers’ intentions and attitudes.
This substantially revised third edition gives a lucid and up-to-date overview of language change.
As one of the first large-scale empirical studies to systematically link individual- and community-based perspectives in language change, this volume breaks new ground in our understanding of language as a complex adaptive system.
The book provides a framework for assessing current theories of language change, and advances new ideas about grammatical reanalysis, conventional and non-conventional use of language, the structure of speech communities, language mixing, ...