ABSTRACT

In Language Change , R. L. Trask uses data from English and other languages to introduce the concepts central to language change.

Language Change:

  • covers the most frequent types of language change and how languages are born and die
  • uses data-based exercises to show how languages change
  • looks at other key areas such as attitudes to language change, and the consequences of changing language.

chapter |5 pages

English in the past

chapter |7 pages

Borrowing words

chapter |6 pages

Creating words

chapter |6 pages

Change in pronunciation

chapter |5 pages

Change in spelling

chapter |5 pages

Change in grammar

chapter |5 pages

Change in meaning

chapter |5 pages

The origin of dialects

chapter |6 pages

More remote relations

chapter |3 pages

Putting it all together