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Understanding Language Change
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April M. S. McMahon
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June 05 2012
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March 17 1994
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Book chapters
pp. xi
Preface and acknowledgements
pp. 1
Introduction
pp. 14
Three views of sound change
pp. 47
Sound change 2: the implementation problem
pp. 69
Morphological change
pp. 107
Syntactic change 1: the Transparency Principle
pp. 138
Word order change and grammaticalisation: language change and general laws
pp. 174
Semantic and lexical change
pp. 200
Language contact
pp. 225
Linguistic variation
pp. 253
Pidgins and Creoles
pp. 284
Language death
pp. 314
Linguistic evolution?
pp. 341
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