TY  - BOOK
AU  - McMahon,April M.S.
TI  - Understanding language change
SN  - 0521441196 
SN  - 978052144
AV  - P142 .M38 
PY  - 1994///
CY  - Cambridge, New York, NY, USA
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Linguistic change
N1  - 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?
ER  -