Language History, Language Change, and Language Relationship An Introduction to Historical and Comparative Linguistics

Name: Language History, Language Change, and Language Relationship An Introduction to Historical and Comparative Linguistics
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ISBN: 9783110214291

ISBN-10: 3110214296

ISBN-13: 9783110214291

Edition: 2nd 2009

Authors: Hans Henrich Hock, Brian D. Joseph

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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 and English 'one people divided by a common language'? And how can the language of Chaucer and Modern English - or Modern British and American English - still be called the same language? The present book provides answers to questions like these in a straightforward way, aimed at the non-specialist, with ample illustrations from both familiar and more exotic languages. Most chapters in this new edition…

Book details

List price: $42.99
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH
Publication date: 8/19/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 605
Size: 6.10" wide x 9.06" long x 1.50" tall
Weight: 2.222
Language: English