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Language Change
Author(s): Larry Trask (Author)
- Publisher: Routledge
- Publication Date: April 28, 1994
- Edition: 1st
- Language: English
- Print length: 102 pages
- ISBN-10: 0415085632
- ISBN-13: 9780415085632
Book Description
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.
Editorial Reviews
Review
“Excellently conceived and written. . . . Trask’s book is superior to any competing textbooks that exist.” — William Bright, University of Colorado
About the Author
Larry Trask, University of Sussex
