Language History, Language Change, and Language Relationship
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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 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"
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