Language Change: Progress or Decay? - Rilegato

Aitchison, Jean

 
9780521411011: Language Change: Progress or Decay?

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This book attempts to answer such questions by giving a lucid and up-to-date overview of language change.

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Descrizione del libro

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.

Contenuti

Part I. Preliminaries: 1. The ever-whirling wheel; 2. Collecting up clues; 3. Charting the changes; Part II. Transition: 4. Spreading the word; 5. Conflicting loyalties; 6. Catching on and taking off; 7. Caught in the web; Part III. Causation: 8. The reason why; 9. Doing what comes naturally; 10. Repairing the patterns; 11. The Mad Hatter's Tea-Party; Part IV. Beginnings and Endings: 12. Development and breakdown; 13. Language birth; 14. Language death; 15. Progress or decay?

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9780521422833: Language Change: Progress or Decay?

Edizione in evidenza

ISBN 10:  0521422833 ISBN 13:  9780521422833
Casa editrice: Cambridge University Press, 1991
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