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" Understanding language change / "
April M.S. McMahon.
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BL
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583812
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b413031
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| Main Entry
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McMahon, April M. S.
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Understanding language change /\ April M.S. McMahon.
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| Publication Statement
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Cambridge ;New York, NY, USA :: Cambridge University Press,, 1994.
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xi, 361 p. ;; 24 cm.
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0521441196 (hc)
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: 9780521441193 (hc)
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: 0521446651 (pbk.)
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: 9780521446655 (pbk.)
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 341-352) and index.
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| Contents
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1. Introduction -- 2. Three views of sound change -- 3. Sound change 2: the implementation problem -- 4. Morphological change -- 5. Syntactic change 1: the Transparency Principle -- 6. Word order change and grammaticalisation: language change and general laws -- 7. Semantic and lexical change -- 8. Language contact -- 9. Linguistic variation -- 10. Pidgins and creoles -- 11. Language death -- 12. Linguistic evolution?
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Linguistic change.
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P142.M38 1994
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