Description: The Understanding Language series provides approachable, yet authoritative, introductions to all the major topics in linguistics. Ideal for students with little or no prior knowledge of linguistics, each book carefully explains the basics, emphasising understanding of the essential notions rather than arguing for a particular theoretical position.Understanding Language Change offers a complete introduction to historical linguistics and language change. The book takes a step-by-step approach, first by introducing concepts through English examples and building on this with illustrations from other languages. Key features of this introductory text include: up to date and recent case studies at the end of each chapterchapter summaries and exercises that feature a wide range of languagescoverage of application of historical linguistics in each chapterglossary of terms This book is essential reading for any students studying Historical Linguistics for the first time.
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EAN: 9780415713382
UPC: 9780415713382
ISBN: 9780415713382
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Item Length: 23.4 cm
Book Title: Understanding Language Change
Item Height: 234mm
Item Width: 156mm
Author: Alexander Bergs, Kate Burridge
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Publication Year: 2016
Item Weight: 544g
Number of Pages: 298 Pages
