Language History, Language Change, and Language Relationship

by Hans Henrich Hock and Brian D. Joseph

Book Overview

Why does language change? Why can we speak to and understand our parents but have trouble reading Shakespeare? Why is Chaucer's English of the fourteenth century so different from Modern English of the late twentieth century that the two are essentially different languages? Why are Americans and English 'one people divided by a common language'? And how can the language of Chaucer and Modern English - or Modern British and American English - still...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3110214296
• ISBN13: 9783110214291
• Release Date: August 2009
• Publisher: de Gruyter Mouton
• Length: 605 Pages
• Weight: 2.01 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 6.1" x 8.7"