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Publication details [#28069]

Breivik, Leiv Egil and Ernst Håkon Jahr. 1989. Language change. De Gruyter Mouton. viii + 281 pp.
Publication type
Book – monograph
Publication language
English
Keywords
crosslinguistic perspective | language change | language contact | language planning
Language as a subject
Bohemian | Chinese, Cantonese | Czech | Danish | Dutch | English | Finnish | French | Greek, Ancient | Green Hmong | Languages, Proto-Indo-European | Languages, Rhaeto-Romance | Languages, Scandinavian | Languages, Slavic | Norwegian | Proto-Bantu | Scottish | Swedish | Thai | West-Teke

Annotation

This collection of papers on language change provides examples from many languages on issues like syntactic change; sound change; causes of language change (such as language contact); language change within the lifespan of an individual; and language change and language planning.