Motives for Language Change

by Raymond Hickey

2021-01-08 22:19:57

This volume considers the processes involved in language change and the issues of how they can be modelled and studied. The way languages change offers an insight into the nature of language itself, its internal organization, and how it is acquired a... Read more
This volume considers the processes involved in language change and the issues of how they can be modelled and studied. The way languages change offers an insight into the nature of language itself, its internal organization, and how it is acquired and used. Accordingly, the phenomenon of language change has been approached from a variety of perspectives by linguists of many different orientations. This book brings together leading figures from different areas of linguistics to re-examine some of the central issues in this field. Less

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File size9.02 X 5.98 X 0.67 in
Print pages300
PublisherCambridge University Press
Publication date March 4, 2010
LanguageEnglish
ISBN9780521135245
Raymond Hickey is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Duisburg and Essen, Department of Anglophone Studies, Germany. His main areas of research are varieties of English, focused on Irish Eng...

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