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- catalog abstract "This 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. -- Publisher description.".
- catalog contributor b12262347.
- catalog created "2001.".
- catalog date "2001".
- catalog date "2001.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "2001.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 281-303) and index.".
- catalog description "Part I. Preliminaries. 1. The ever-whirling wheel: the inevitability of change --- 2. Collecting up clues: piecing together the evidence --- 3. Charting the changes: studying changes in progress ---- Part II. Transition: 4. Spreading the word: from person to person. 5. Conflicting loyalties: opposing social pressures --- 6. Catching on and taking off: how sound changes spread through a language --- 7. Caught in the web: how syntactic changes work through a language --- 8. The wheels of language: grammaticalization --- 9. Slip slidin' away: change of meaning ---- Part III: 10. The reason why: sociolinguistic causes of change. 11. Doing what comes naturally: inherent causes of language change --- 12. Repairing the patterns: therapeutic changes --- 13. The Mad Hatter's tea-party: chain reaction changes ---- Part IV: 14. Development and breakdown: child language and language disorders. 15. Language birth: how languages begin --- 16. Language death: how languages end --- 17. Progress or decay?: Assessing the situation.".
- catalog description "This 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. -- Publisher description.".
- catalog extent "xi, 312 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0521791553".
- catalog identifier "0521795354 (pbk.)".
- catalog isPartOf "Cambridge approaches to linguistics".
- catalog issued "2001".
- catalog issued "2001.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Cambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press,".
- catalog subject "417/.7 21".
- catalog subject "Linguistic change.".
- catalog subject "P142 .A37 2001".
- catalog tableOfContents "Part I. Preliminaries. 1. The ever-whirling wheel: the inevitability of change --- 2. Collecting up clues: piecing together the evidence --- 3. Charting the changes: studying changes in progress ---- Part II. Transition: 4. Spreading the word: from person to person. 5. Conflicting loyalties: opposing social pressures --- 6. Catching on and taking off: how sound changes spread through a language --- 7. Caught in the web: how syntactic changes work through a language --- 8. The wheels of language: grammaticalization --- 9. Slip slidin' away: change of meaning ---- Part III: 10. The reason why: sociolinguistic causes of change. 11. Doing what comes naturally: inherent causes of language change --- 12. Repairing the patterns: therapeutic changes --- 13. The Mad Hatter's tea-party: chain reaction changes ---- Part IV: 14. Development and breakdown: child language and language disorders. 15. Language birth: how languages begin --- 16. Language death: how languages end --- 17. Progress or decay?: Assessing the situation.".
- catalog title "Language change : progress or decay? / Jean Aitchison.".
- catalog type "text".