00932pam a2200181 a 4500 6258 6258 0521441196 0521446651 9780521446655 P142 .M38 McMahon, April M. S. Understanding language change / April M. S. McMahon. Cambridge ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 1994. xi, 361 p. ; 24 cm. Includes Index 1. Introduction -- 2. Three views of sound change -- 3. Sound change 2: the implementation problem -- 4. Morphological change -- 5. Syntactic change 1: the Transparency Principle -- 6. Word order change and grammaticalisation: language change and general laws -- 7. Semantic and lexical change -- 8. Language contact -- 9. Linguistic variation -- 10. Pidgins and creoles -- 11. Language death -- 12. Linguistic evolution? Linguistic change. BK 0 0 0 0 REF MUCGM MUCGM GEN 1999-12-17 0 P142 .M38 26250 2019-09-17 00:00:00 2019-09-17 BK