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Author:   Herbert Schendl ,  H. G. Widdowson
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 13.00cm , Height: 0.90cm , Length: 19.90cm
Weight:   0.160kg
ISBN:  

9780194372381

ISBN 10:   0194372383
Pages:   144
Publication Date:   26 April 2001
Audience:   ELT/ESL ,  ELT General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Out of Print
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Table of Contents

SECTION 1 Survey 1: Language change as a matter of fact Attitudes to language change Language state and process The aims and scope of historical linguistics 2: Reconstructing the past: Data and evidence The data of historical linguistics The written evidence Sources of evidence Comparing and reconstructing languages Correspondences between languages Laws of change Internal reconstruction 3: Vocabulary change Coining new words Changes of meaning Why do word meanings change? 4: Grammatical change Morphological change Syntactic change 5: Sound change How sounds are produced Phonetic change Phonemic change 6: Language contact Borrowing from other languages Convergence and linguistic areas Language birth: pidgins and creoles Language death 7: How and why do languages change? Functional explanations Psycholinguistic explanations: Language acquisition Sociolinguistic explanations The origin and spread of changes 8: Postscript: Further developments Socio-historical linguistics and historical pragmatics Evolutionary linguistics Standardisation and language planning Conclusion SECTION 2 Readings SECTION 3 References SECTION 4 Glossary

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