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Language Change (Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics)
Joan L. Bybee
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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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Series
Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics
Condition
New
Number of Pages
309
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781107655829
SKU
V9781107655829
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About Joan L. Bybee
Joan Bybee is Distinguished Professor Emerita of Linguistics at the University of New Mexico.
Reviews for Language Change (Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics)
'This book, written by someone who has been influential in shaping our understanding of phonological and grammatical processes, provides a new perspective on how the study of language change can be, and in my view should be, approached.' Bernd Heine, University of Cologne 'The distillation of years of teaching topics that her own brilliant work has helped to define, Language ... Read more