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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

Proto-Bantu

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.