Titre :	Language change : Progress or Decay?
Type de document :	texte imprimé
Auteurs :	Aitchison, Jean, Auteur
Mention d'édition :	4th ed
Editeur :	Cambridge : Cambridge university press
Année de publication :	2013.
Collection :	Cambridge approaches to linguistics
Importance :	298 p.
Présentation :	couv. ill. en coul.
Format :	19 cm.
ISBN/ISSN/EAN :	978-1-107-67892-7
Langues :	Anglais (eng)
Tags :	Language change  preliminaries  transition  causation  beginnings  endings
Index. décimale :	E428
Résumé :	How and why do languages change? Where does the evidence of language change come from? How do languages begin and end? This introduction to language change explores these and other questions, considering changes through time. The central theme of this book is whether language change is a symptom of progress or decay. This book will show you why it is neither, and that understanding the factors surrounding how language change occurs is essential to understanding why it happens. This updated edition remains non-technical and accessible to readers with no previous knowledge of linguistics.

Language change : Progress or Decay? [texte imprimé] / Aitchison, Jean, Auteur  . -  4th ed . - Cambridge : Cambridge university press, 2013. . - 298 p. : couv. ill. en coul. ; 19 cm.. - (Cambridge approaches to linguistics) .
ISBN : 978-1-107-67892-7
Langues : Anglais (eng)

Tags :	Language change  preliminaries  transition  causation  beginnings  endings
Index. décimale :	E428
Résumé :	How and why do languages change? Where does the evidence of language change come from? How do languages begin and end? This introduction to language change explores these and other questions, considering changes through time. The central theme of this book is whether language change is a symptom of progress or decay. This book will show you why it is neither, and that understanding the factors surrounding how language change occurs is essential to understanding why it happens. This updated edition remains non-technical and accessible to readers with no previous knowledge of linguistics.