Language History, Language Change, and Language Relationship: An Introduction to Historical and Comparative Linguistics by Brian D. Joseph, Hans Henrich Hock

Language History, Language Change, and Language Relationship: An Introduction to Historical and Comparative Linguistics

Brian D. Joseph, Hans Henrich Hock

588 pages • first pub 2009 (editions)

nonfiction challenging medium-paced
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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 essen...

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