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