Language History, Language Change, and Language Relationship : : An Introduction to Historical and Comparative Linguistics / / Hans Henrich Hock, Brian D. Joseph.
Why does language change? Why can we speak to and understand our parents but have trouble reading Shakespeare? Why is Chaucer's English of the fourteenth century so different from Modern English of the late twentieth century that the two are essentially different languages? Why are Americans an...
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Place / Publishing House: | Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2009] ©2009 |
Year of Publication: | 2009 |
Edition: | 2nd rev. ed. |
Language: | English |
Series: | Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM] ,
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (588 p.) |
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