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17 - Language history and change

George Yule
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The Study of Language , pp. 224 - 238
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2010

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Aitchison, J. (2001) Language Change: Progress or Decay? (3rd edition) Cambridge University PressGoogle Scholar
Schendl, H. (2001) Historical LinguisticsOxford University PressGoogle Scholar
Campbell, L. (2004) Historical Linguistics: An Introduction (2nd edition) MIT PressGoogle Scholar
Janson, T. (2002) Speak: A Short History of LanguagesOxford University PressGoogle Scholar
Austin, P. (ed.) (2008) One Thousand LanguagesUniversity of California Press
Comrie, B. (ed.) (1987) The World's Major LanguagesOxford University Press
Labov, W. (2001) Principles of Linguistic Change volume 2: Social FactorsBlackwellGoogle Scholar
McMahon, A. (1994) Understanding Language ChangeCambridge University PressCrossRefGoogle Scholar
Barber, C., Beal, J. and Shaw, P. (2009) The English Language: A Historical Introduction (2nd edition) Cambridge University PressCrossRefGoogle Scholar
Lerer, S. (2007) Inventing English: A Portable History of the LanguageColumbia University PressCrossRefGoogle Scholar
Cannon, G. (1990) The Life and Mind of Oriental JonesCambridge University PressGoogle Scholar
Minkova, D., and Stockwell, R. (2009) English Words: History and Structure (2nd edition) Cambridge University PressCrossRefGoogle Scholar
Adamson, S. (2000) “A lovely little example” In Fischer, O., Rosenbach, A. and Stein, D. (eds.) Pathways of Change: Grammaticalization in English (39–66) John BenjaminsCrossRefGoogle Scholar
Rissanen, M. (2008) “From ‘quickly’ to ‘fairly’: on the history of rather”English Language and Linguistics 12: 345–359CrossRefGoogle Scholar
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