Explaining Language Change: An Evolutionary Approach

by William Croft

Book Overview

William Croft's text weaves together recent research findings from sociolinguistics, historical linguistics, grammatical change, pragmatics, social variation, language contact and genetic linguistics.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0582356784
• ISBN13: 9780582356788
• Release Date: January 2001
• Publisher: Longman Publishing Group
• Length: 287 Pages