Language Change: Progress Or Decay?

Language Change: Progress Or Decay?
ISBN-10
1107023629
ISBN-13
9781107023628
Series
Language Change
Category
Language Arts & Disciplines
Pages
298
Language
English
Published
2013
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Author
Jean Aitchison

Description

How and why do languages change? Where does the evidence of language change come from? How 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. This book will show you why it is neither, and that understanding the factors surrounding how language change occurs is essential to understanding why it happens. This updated edition remains non-technical and accessible to readers with no previous knowledge of linguistics.

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