McMahon, April M. S. creator text Cambridge New York, NY, USA Cambridge University Press 1994 monographic xi, 361 p. ; 24 cm. 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? April M. S. McMahon. Includes Index Linguistic change P142 .M38 0521441196 0521446651 9780521446655