Language Change: Progress or Decay?

How and why do languages change? Where does the evidence of language change come from? How do languages begin and end? This introduction to language change explores these and other questions, considering changes through time. The central theme of this book is whether language change is a symptom of progress or decay. This book will show you why it is neither, and that understanding the factors surrounding how language change occurs is essential to understanding why it happens. This updated edition remains non-technical and accessible to readers with no previous knowledge of linguistics.Language Change: Progress or Decay? 4th Edition is written by Jean Aitchison and published by Cambridge University Press. ISBNs for Language Change are 9781139603805, 1139603809 and the print ISBNs are 9781107023628, 1107023629.