Last updated 10th July 2024: Online ordering is currently unavailable due to technical issues. We apologise for any delays responding to customers while we resolve this. For further updates please visit our website https://www.cambridge.org/news-and-insights/technical-incident

Skip to main content Accessibility help

Further reading

Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 June 2012

Summary

A summary is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content.

Image of the first page of this content. For PDF version, please use the ‘Save PDF’ preceeding this image.'

Type: Chapter
Information: Why Do Languages Change? , pp. 187 - 189

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511841194.011 [Opens in a new window]

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Print publication year: 2009

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

Aitchison, Jean. 2001. Language Change: Progress or Decay? 3rd edn. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.Google Scholar

Campbell, Lyle. 2004. Historical Linguistics: An Introduction. 2nd edn. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.Google Scholar

McMahon, April. 1994. Understanding Language Change. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.CrossRef Google Scholar

Millar, Robert McColl. 2007. Trask's Historical Linguistics. London: Hodder Arnold.Google Scholar

Clarkson, James. 2007. Indo-European Linguistics: An Introduction. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.CrossRef Google Scholar

Giacalone Ramat, Anna and Ramat, Paolo (eds.) 1998. Indo-European Languages. London and New York: Routledge.

Hughes, Geoffrey. 2000. A History of English Words. Oxford: Blackwell.Google Scholar

Baugh, Albert C. and Cable, Thomas. 2002. A History of the English Language. 5th edn. London: Routledge.Google Scholar

Hogg, Richard M. 2002. An Introduction to Old English. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.Google Scholar

Horobin, Simon and Smith, Jeremy J.. 2002. An Introduction to Middle English. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.Google Scholar

Nevalainen, Terttu. 2006. An Introduction to Early Modern English. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.Google Scholar

Scragg, D. G. 1974. A History of English Spelling. Manchester: Manchester University Press.Google Scholar

Coulmas, Florian. 1989. The Writing Systems of the World. Oxford: Blackwell.Google Scholar

Rogers, Henry. 2005. Writing Systems: A Linguistic Approach. Oxford: Blackwell.Google Scholar

Thomason, Sarah Grey. 2001. Language Contact. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.CrossRef Google Scholar

Holm, John A. 2000. An Introduction to Pidgins and Creoles. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.CrossRef Google Scholar

Bakker, Peter. 1997. A Language of Our Own: The Genesis of Michif. Oxford: Oxford University Press.Google Scholar

Senghas, Ann. 1995. Children's Contribution to the Birth of Nicaraguan Sign Language. Cambridge, Mass.: Massachusetts Institute of Technology.Google Scholar