Language Change
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Language Change
By Joan BybeeThis new introduction explores all aspects of language change, with an emphasis on the role of cognition and language use.
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Language Change
By Larry TraskIn Language Change , R. L. Trask uses data from English and other languages to introduce the concepts central to language change.
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Language Change: The Impact of English as a Lingua Franca
By Anna Mauranen, Svetlana VetchinnikovaThrough integrating different perspectives on language change, this book explores the enormous on-going linguistic upheavals in the wake of the global dominance of English.
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Language Change: Progress Or Decay?
By Jean AitchisonThis substantially revised third edition gives a lucid and up-to-date overview of language change.
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Language Change
By Ian CushingThis is a general introduction to the methods and principles behind English linguistics study, suitable for students at advanced level and beyond.
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Language Change
By Joan BybeeComplete with questions for discussion, suggested readings and a useful glossary of terms, this book helps students to gain a general understanding of language as an ever-changing system.
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Language Change: Progress Or Decay?
By Jean AitchisonHow do languages begin and end? This introduction to language change explores these and other questions, considering changes through time. The central theme of this book is whether language change is a symptom of progress or decay.
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Language Change: Contributions to the Study of its Causes
By Leiv E. Breivik, Ernst H. JahrThe series publishes state-of-the-art work on core areas of linguistics across theoretical frameworks, as well as studies that provide new insights by approaching language from an interdisciplinary perspective.
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Language Change: Lexical Diffusion and Literacy
By Goparaju Sambasiva RaoFor this reason he turned to child language acquisition from which he hoped to gain an understanding of a short - term process of gradual change across the lexicon . This study is significant , but what remained unproved is still the ...
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Language Change
By Larry TraskFirst Published in 1994. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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Language Change: The Impact of English as a Lingua Franca
By Anna Mauranen, Svetlana VetchinnikovaA recent example from Finnish would be the incipient productivity of the calque pitkässä juoksussa ('in the long run,), now producing expressions like pitkässä kuusessa ('in the long fir tree,) in the same function.
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Language Change: Progress or Decay?
By Jean AitchisonHow do languages begin and end? This introduction to language change explores these and other questions, considering changes through time. The central theme of this book is whether language change is a symptom of progress or decay.
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Language Change: Contributions to the Study of Its Causes
By Ernst Hakon Jahr, Leiv Egil BreivikThe series publishes state-of-the-art work on core areas of linguistics across theoretical frameworks, as well as studies that provide new insights by approaching language from an interdisciplinary perspective.
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Language Change
By Robert Lawrence Trask, R. L. TraskFirst Published in 1994. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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Language Change: Advances in Historical Sociolinguistics
By Ernst Hakon JahrThe series publishes state-of-the-art work on core areas of linguistics across theoretical frameworks, as well as studies that provide new insights by approaching language from an interdisciplinary perspective.