This specially commissioned volume considers the processes involved
in language change and the issues of how they can be modelled and
studied. The way languages change offers an insight into the nature
of language itself, its internal organisation, and how it is
acquired and used. Accordingly, the phenomenon of language change
has been approached from a variety of perspectives by linguists of
many different orientations. This book, originally published in
2003, brings together an international team of leading figures from
different areas of linguistics to re-examine some of the central
issues in this field and also to discuss new proposals. The volume
is arranged into sections, including grammaticalisation, the
typological perspective, the social context of language change and
contact-based explanations. It seeks to cover the subject as a
whole, bearing in mind its relevance for the general analysis of
language, and will appeal to a broad international readership.
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