<p>This book gives a lucid and up-to-date overview of language change, discussing where our evidence about language change comes from, how and why changes happen, and how languages begin and end. It considers both changes that occurred long ago, and those currently in progress. This substantially revised third edition includes two new chapters on change of meaning and grammaticalization. New sections have been added to other chapters, as well as over 150 new references. The work remains nontechnical in style and accessible to the reader with no previous knowledge of linguistics.</p>

Language Change: Progress or Decay? (1st Edition)

Reference

Jean Aitchison

Foreign Language Study & Reference

Fontana Press

Articulate Mammal (University Library)

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Psychology & Counseling

HarperCollins Publishers, Ltd

<p>An introduction to linguistics. This fifth edition contains a new chapter on language and style, discussing literature, advertising and newspapers. There are also new sections on language origin, the role of verbs, language and power, and sign language.</p>

Linguistics (Teach Yourself Educational)

Teach Yourself Books

SBS atlas of languages: the origin and development of languages throughout the world

ABC Books for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation

Linguistics (Teach Yourself)

Words, Language & Grammar

NTC Pub. Group

Words in the Mind: An Introduction to the Mental Lexicon

Wiley/Blackwell

The Articulate Mammal: An Introduction to Psycholinguistics (Routledge Classics)

Routledge

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