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Language Change: Progress or Decay

by Jean Aitchison
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Overview

An up-to-date overview of language change considers where our evidence about language comes from and how and why changes happen, begin and end. This second edition has been substantially revised and enlarged.

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Book Details

Published
October 1, 1991
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Pages
266
Format
Hardcover
ISBN
9780876638729

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