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Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics

Hardcover • 2015 • 1. edition

Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics

By Joan L. Bybee

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About the book

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...Show more

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9781107020160

Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Published year

2015

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1

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Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics

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Hardcover

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