Language Change: Progress or Decay? (Cambridge Approaches to Linguistics) - Softcover

Aitchison, Jean

 
9780521422833: Language Change: Progress or Decay? (Cambridge Approaches to Linguistics)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0521422833 ISBN 13: 9780521422833
Verlag: Cambridge University Press, 1991

Inhaltsangabe

Why do people sometimes leave off the ends of words when they speak? Is it sloppiness, progress, or inevitable erosion? This book attempts to answer such questions by giving a lucid and up-to-date overview of language change. It discusses where our evidence about language change comes from, how and why changes happen, and how and why languages begin and end. It considers not only changes which occurred many years ago, but also those currently in progress. It does this within the framework of one central question - is language change a symptom of progress or decay? It concludes that language is neither progressing nor decaying, but that an understanding of the factors causing change is essential for anyone involved with language alteration. For this substantially revised and enlarged second edition Jean Aitchison has included details of recent research on a number of key topics, and also discusses data from a wider variety of languages: but the work remains non-technical in style and accessible to the reader with no previous knowledge of linguistics.

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Why do people sometimes leave off the ends of words when they speak? Is it sloppiness, progress, or inevitable erosion? This book attempts to answer such questions by giving a lucid and up-to-date overview of language change. It discusses where our evidence about language change comes from, how and why changes happen, and how and why languages begin and end. It considers not only changes which occurred many years ago, but also those currently in progress. It does this within the framework of one central question - is language change a symptom of progress or decay? It concludes that language is neither progressing nor decaying, but that an understanding of the factors causing change is essential for anyone involved with language alteration. For this substantially revised and enlarged second edition Jean Aitchison has included details of recent research on a number of key topics, and also discusses data from a wider variety of languages: but the work remains non-technical in style and accessible to the reader with no previous knowledge of linguistics.

Product Description

258p paperback, from a Cambridge college library, pages clean with symbols, notes and references, adhesive film over cover to protect book for library use

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Verlag
Cambridge University Press
Erscheinungsdatum
1991
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0521422833
ISBN 13 
9780521422833
Einband
Tapa blanda
Auflage
2
Anzahl der Seiten
270
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