Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface and acknowledgements
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Three views of sound change
- 3 Sound change 2: the implementation problem
- 4 Morphological change
- 5 Syntactic change 1: the Transparency Principle
- 6 Word order change and grammaticalisation: language change and general laws
- 7 Semantic and lexical change
- 8 Language contact
- 9 Linguistic variation
- 10 Pidgins and Creoles
- 11 Language death
- 12 Linguistic evolution?
- Bibliography
- Index
Contents
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 June 2012
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface and acknowledgements
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Three views of sound change
- 3 Sound change 2: the implementation problem
- 4 Morphological change
- 5 Syntactic change 1: the Transparency Principle
- 6 Word order change and grammaticalisation: language change and general laws
- 7 Semantic and lexical change
- 8 Language contact
- 9 Linguistic variation
- 10 Pidgins and Creoles
- 11 Language death
- 12 Linguistic evolution?
- Bibliography
- Index
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- Understanding Language Change , pp. ix - xPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1994