Language Change

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Joan Bybee

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Hardback

Series:

Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics

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How and why do languages change? This new introduction offers a guide to the types of change at all levels of linguistic structure, as well as the mechanisms behind each type. Based on data from a variety of methods and a huge array of language families, it examines general patterns of change, bringing together recent findings on sound change, analogical change, grammaticalization, the creation and change of constructions, as well as lexical change. Emphasizing crosslinguistic patterns and going well beyond traditional methods in historical linguistics, this book sees change as grounded in cognitive processes and usage factors that are rarely mentioned in other textbooks. Complete with questions for discussion, suggested readings and a useful glossary of terms, this book helps students to gain a general understanding of language as an ever-changing system.

Author Biography:

Joan Bybee is Distinguished Professor Emerita of Linguistics at the University of New Mexico.

Release date Australia

May 28th, 2015

Author

Joan Bybee

Audiences

Professional & Vocational
Tertiary Education (US: College)

Illustrations

28 Tables, black and white; 2 Line drawings, unspecified

Pages

312

Series

Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics

Dimensions

181x253x18

ISBN-13

9781107020160

Product ID

22522772

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