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Publication details [#671]

Aitchison, Jean. 1981. Language change: Progress or decay? Fontana. 266 pp.

Publication type

Book – monograph

Publication language

English

Keywords

historical linguistics | language change

Annotation

A general theory of language change and historical linguistics. The attempt is to show the importance of changes currently taking place, and of sociolinguistic and psycholinguistic factors underlying many alterations.

Reviewed by

Rice, Keren. 2002. Review of $Language change: Progress or decay?

Kristiansen, Tore. 2003. Review of J.Aitchison (1985: `Language change: Progress or decay?').