Dynamics of Language Changes: Looking Within and Across Languages

Book Overview

Part 1: Language Changes: Looking Within a Language.- Chapter 1. Language and Revolution: Disruptions and Ruptures in the (Social) Histories of Language.- Chapter 2. Different Sources, Same Path - The Development of Addressee Based Deictics to Markers of Discourse Status.- Chapter 3. Diachronic Typological Profiling Against Synchronic Variation in the Anglophone World.- Chapter 4. Taboo Negators and The Jespersen Cycle.- Chapter 5. Standardise this!...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9811564329
• ISBN13: 9789811564321
• Release Date: September 2021
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 289 Pages
• Weight: 0.94 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"