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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.Editorials
From the Publisher
Advance Praise: "Jean Aitchison's Language Change: Progress or Decay? has been essential introductory reading for students of historical linguistics for many years: it manages the rare trick of combining theoretical sophistication and clear, simple (but not simplistic) expression. This new edition, which takes account of current issues in language-change studies while not discarding classic discussions, remains a fine and very approachable survey. I shall certainly recommend it to my undergraduates." --Jeremy J. Smith, University of Glasgow‘’A brilliant essay in linguistics...Even in the most complex spaghetti junctions of her argument, her own directions are always clear, and her own language lively, fresh and stimulating’’. --The Guardian
Book Details
Published
December 31, 2012
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Pages
320
Format
Hardcover
ISBN
9781107023628