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Understanding language change
- Title
- Understanding language change / April M.S. McMahon.
- Author
- McMahon, April M. S.
- Publication
- Cambridge ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 1994.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Request in advance | P142 .M38 1994 | Off-site |
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- Description
- xi, 361 pages; 23 cm
- Subject
- Linguistic change
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 341-352) and index.
- Contents
- 1. Introduction -- 2. Three views of sound change -- 3. Sound change 2: the implementation problem -- 4. Morphological change -- 5. Syntactic change 1: the Transparency Principle -- 6. Word order change and grammaticalisation: language change and general laws -- 7. Semantic and lexical change -- 8. Language contact -- 9. Linguistic variation -- 10. Pidgins and creoles -- 11. Language death -- 12. Linguistic evolution?
- ISBN
- 0521441196 (hc)
- 0521446651 (pbk.)
- LCCN
- 93008121
- OCLC
- 28064885
- ocm28064885
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries