| Author | : Joan Bybee |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 311 |
| Release | : 2015-05-28 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 1107020166 |
This new introduction explores all aspects of language change, with an emphasis on the role of cognition and language use.
| Author | : Anna Mauranen |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 385 |
| Release | : 2020-12-03 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 1108492851 |
Through integrating different perspectives on language change, this book explores the enormous on-going linguistic upheavals in the wake of the global dominance of English. Combining empirical research with theoretical approaches, it will appeal to researchers and graduate students of English, and also of other languages studying language change.
| Author | : Rudi Keller |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 200 |
| Release | : 2005-06-29 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 1134901984 |
In the twentieth century paradigms of linguistics have largely left language change to one side. Rudi Keller's book is an exciting contribution to linguistic philosophy becuase it puts language change back on the linguistics agenda and demonstrates that, far from being a remote mystery, it can and should be explained.
| Author | : Jean Aitchison |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 328 |
| Release | : 2001 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 9780521795357 |
This is a lucid and up-to-date overview of language change. It discusses where our evidence about language change comes from, how and why changes happen, and how languages begin and end. It considers both changes which occurred long ago, and those currently in progress. It does this within the framework of one central question - is language change a symptom of progress or decay? It concludes that language is neither progressing nor decaying, but that an understanding of the factors surrounding change is essential for anyone concerned about language alteration. For this substantially revised third edition, Jean Aitchison has included two new chapters on change of meaning and grammaticalization. Sections on new methods of reconstruction and ongoing chain shifts in Britain and America have also been added as well as over 150 new references. The work remains non-technical in style and accessible to readers with no previous knowledge of linguistics.
| Author | : Lars Heltoft |
| Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing Company |
| Total Pages | : 431 |
| Release | : 2019-06-15 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 9027262632 |
This volume centers on three important theoretical concepts for the study of language change and the ways in which language structure emerges and turns into new structure: reanalysis, actualization, and indexicality. Reanalysis is a part of ongoing everyday language use, a process through which language is reproduced and changed. Actualization refers to the processes through which a reanalyzed structure spreads throughout single communities and society. Indexicality covers the way in which parts of a linguistic system can point to other parts of the system, both syntagmatically and paradigmatically. The inclusion of indexicality leads to fine-grained analysis in morphology, word order, and constructional syntax.
| Author | : April M. S. McMahon |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 380 |
| Release | : 1994-03-17 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 9780521446655 |
This textbook analyses changes from every area of grammar and addresses recent developments in socio-historical linguistics.
| Author | : Larry Trask |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 101 |
| Release | : 2013-06-17 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 1134885687 |
In Language Change , R. L. Trask uses data from English and other languages to introduce the concepts central to language change. Language Change: covers the most frequent types of language change and how languages are born and die uses data-based exercises to show how languages change looks at other key areas such as attitudes to language change, and the consequences of changing language.
| Author | : T. E. McAuley |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 322 |
| Release | : 2013-10-11 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 1136844686 |
This book adopts a wide focus on the range of East Asian languages, in both their pre-modern and modern forms, within the specific topic area of language change. It contains sections on dialect studies, contact linguistics, socio-linguistics and syntax/phonology and deals with all three major languages of East Asia: Chinese, Japanese and Korean. Individual chapters cover pre-Sino-Japanese phonology, nominalizers in Chinese, Japanese and Korean; Japanese loanwords in Taiwan Mandarin; changes in Korean honorifics; the tense and aspect system of Japanese; and language policy in Japan. The book will be of interest to linguists working on East Asian languages, and will be of value to a range of general linguists working in comparative or historical linguistics, socio-linguistics, language typology and language contact.
| Author | : Ian Cushing |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 129 |
| Release | : 2018-05-10 |
| Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
| ISBN | : 1108402232 |
This is a general introduction to the methods and principles behind English linguistics study, suitable for students at advanced level and beyond. Written with input from the Cambridge Corpus, it looks at the way meaning is made using authentic written and spoken examples. This helps students give confident analysis and articulate responses. Using short activities to help explain analysis methods, the book guides students through major modern issues and concepts. It summarises key concerns and modern findings, while providing inspiration for language investigations and non-examined assessments (NEAs) with research suggestions.
