Language History, Language Change, and Language Relationship: An Introduction to Historical and Comparative Linguistics (Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs, 93) - Softcover

Hock, Hans H; Joseph, Brian D

 
9783110147841: Language History, Language Change, and Language Relationship: An Introduction to Historical and Comparative Linguistics (Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs, 93)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 311014784X ISBN 13: 9783110147841
Verlag: de Gruyter Mouton, 1996

Inhaltsangabe

Why does language change? Why can we speak to and understand our parents but have trouble reading Shakespeare? Why is Chaucer's English of the fourteenth century so different from Modern English of the late twentieth century that the two are essentially different languages? Why are Americans and English 'one people divided by a common language'? And how can the language of Chaucer and Modern English - or Modern British and American English - still be called the same language? The present book provides answers to questions like these in a straightforward way, aimed at the non-specialist, with ample illustrations from both familiar and more exotic languages.

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Verlag
de Gruyter Mouton
Erscheinungsdatum
1996
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
311014784X
ISBN 13 
9783110147841
Einband
Taschenbuch
Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
617
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