Overview
- Explains the origins of language change and the dynamics of the spread of language changes
- Advances current research in language change and suggests new directions
- Presents case studies in language change from all around the world
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Each chapter explores a different component of language change, including typology, syntax, morphology, phonology, semantics, lexicology, discourse strategies, diachronic change, synchronic change, how the deafblind modify sign language, and the accommodation of language to song. This book presents a comprehensive analysis of the dynamics of language change over time, simultaneously advancing current research and suggesting new directions in sociolinguistic and historical linguistic approaches.
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Keywords
- Language and Revolution
- Social Histories of Language
- Language History
- Diachronic Typological
- Language Revitalisation
- Contemporary Australian English
- Construction Grammar and Language Change in Australia
- Visual Sign Languages
- Sound Symbolism and Language Change
- Sociolinguistics
- Phonology and Phonetics
- Typology and Syntax
Table of contents (17 chapters)
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Language Changes: Looking Within a Language
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Language Changes: Looking Across Languages
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Language Changes: Other Aspects
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Dynamics of Language Changes
Book Subtitle: Looking Within and Across Languages
Editors: Keith Allan
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-6430-7
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-15-6429-1Published: 01 September 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-15-6432-1Published: 01 September 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-981-15-6430-7Published: 31 August 2020
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 289
Number of Illustrations: 95 b/w illustrations
Topics: Sociolinguistics, Linguistic Anthropology, Language History, Semantics, Phonology and Phonetics