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1	The Unfolding of Language: An Evolutionary Tour of Mankind's Greatest Invention more books like this by Dr. Guy Deutscher add to wishlist Drawing on recent groundbreaking discoveries in modern linguistics, the author exposes the elusive forces of creation at work in human communication, giving fresh insight into how language emerges, evolves, and decays. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
2	Language Myths more books like this by Professor Laurie Bauer (Editor), Peter Trudgill (Editor) add to wishlist This is a unique collection of original essays by 21 of the world's leading linguists. The topics discussed focus on some of the most popular myths about language: the media are ruining English; children can't speak or write properly anymore; and, America is ruining the English language. The tone is lively and entertaining throughout and there are ... see all copies from $2.63! new only from $4.49! \| SVS
3	Endangered Languages: Language Loss and Community Response more books like this by Lenore A Grenoble (Editor), Dr. Lindsay J Whaley (Editor) add to wishlist This book provides an overview of the issues surrounding language loss. It brings together work by theoretical linguists, field linguists, and non-linguist members of minority communities to provide an integrated view of how language is lost, from sociological and economic as well as from linguistic perspectives. The contributions to the volume ... see all copies from $9.40! new only from $17.74! \| SVS
4	Principles of Linguistic Change, Social Factors more books like this by William Labov add to wishlist This volume presents the results of several decades of inquiry into the social origins and social motivation of linguistic change. It includes the first complete report on the Philadelphia project designed to establish the social location of the leaders of linguistic change. These findings are developed further on the basis of a broad range of ... see all copies from $7.86! new only from $56.07! \| SVS
5	Principles of Linguistic Change, Internal Factors more books like this by William Labov add to wishlist This book develops the general principles of linguistic change that form the foundations of historical linguistics, dialectology and sociolinguistics. It is concerned with the factors that govern the internal development of linguistic structures: the mechanisms of change, the constraints on change, and the ways in which change is embedded in the ... see all copies from $50.76! new only from $50.76! \| SVS
6	Phonology and Language Use more books like this by Joan Bybee, S R Anderson (Editor), J Bresnan (Editor) add to wishlist A research perspective that takes language use into account opens up new views of old issues and provides an understanding of issues that linguists have rarely addressed. Referencing new developments in cognitive and functional linguistics, phonetics, and connectionist modeling, this book investigates various ways in which a speaker/hearer's ... see all copies from $35.82! new only from $35.82! \| SVS
7	Understanding Language Change more books like this by April M S McMahon add to wishlist How and why do language changes begin; how and why do they spread; and how can they ultimately be explained? This new textbook sets out to answer these questions in a clear and helpful way which will be accessible to all students with an elementary knowledge of linguistics. In the first half of the book Dr McMahon analyses changes from every area ... see all copies from $14.41! new only from $40.37! \| SVS
8	Defining Creole more books like this by John McWhorter add to wishlist This volume gathers the last ten years worth of published articles on creole languages and their origins by John H. McWhorter, a unique and often controversial scholar in the field. The articles fall into roughly three categories: defending his hypothesis that creole languages are synchronically distinguishable from older grammars, addressing the ... see all copies from $9.95! new only from $9.95! \| SVS
9	Language Change: Progress or Decay? more books like this by Jean Aitchison add to wishlist Why do people sometimes leave off the ends of words when they speak? Is it sloppiness, progress, or inevitable erosion? This book attempts to answer such questions by giving a lucid and up-to-date overview of language change. It discusses where our evidence about language change comes from, how and why changes happen, and how and why languages ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $24.99! \| SVS
10	Language Creation and Language Change: Creolization, Diachrony, and Development more books like this by Michel De Graff (Editor) add to wishlist This text is organized into five parts: creolization and acquisition; acquisition under exceptional circumstances; language processing and syntactic change; parameter setting in acquisition and through creolization and language change; and a concluding part integrating the contributors' observations and proposals into a series of commentaries on ... see all copies from $6.69! new only from $6.69! \| first editions
11 view cover	The Seeds of Speech: Language Origin and Evolution more books like this by Jean Aitchison add to wishlist Human language is a weird communication system: it has more in common with birdsong than with the calls of other primates. In this wide-ranging and accessible overview, Jean Aitchison explores the origins of human language and how it has evolved. She likens the search to a vast pre-historic jigsaw puzzle, in which numerous fragments of evidence ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $8.75! \| first editions \| SVS
12 view cover	History of Language more books like this by Steven Roger Fischer add to wishlist This work charts the history of communication from the time before human language was conceived through to the media explosion of the present day. Describing modes of communication between whales, birds, insects and primates and suggesting the first contexts in which the concept of "language" might be applied, the author moves from the early ... see all copies from $3.77! new only from $9.77! \| first editions \| SVS
13 view cover	Language Contact and Grammatical Change more books like this by Bernd Heine, Tania Kuteva, Salikoko S Mufwene (Editor) add to wishlist The phenomenon of language contact, and how it affects the structure of languages, has been of great interest to linguists. This study looks at how grammatical forms and structures evolve when speakers of two languages come into contact, and offers an interesting insight into the mechanism that induces people to transfer grammatical structures ... see all copies from $32.50! new only from $37.07! \| first editions \| SVS
14	Language Change in South American Indian Languages more books like this by Mary Ritchie Key add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.00! \| first editions \| SVS
15 view cover	How New Languages Emerge more books like this by David Lightfoot add to wishlist New languages are constantly emerging, as existing languages diverge into different forms. To explain this fascinating process, we need to understand how languages change and how they emerge in children. In this pioneering study, David Lightfoot explains how languages come into being, arguing that children are the driving force. He explores how ... see all copies from $8.60! new only from $8.60! \| SVS
16 view cover	The Development of Language more books like this by David Lightfoot add to wishlist How and why do languages change over time? Could the way an individual child develops affect aggregate language change? What do the mechanisms of change tell us about the evolution of language in our species? To answer these questions, David Lightfoot looks closely at young children. A child develops a grammar on exposure to some triggering ... see all copies from $7.72! new only from $17.01! \| first editions
17 view cover	The Comparative Method Reviewed more books like this by Mark Durie (Editor), Malcolm Ross (Editor) add to wishlist Durie and Ross have drawn together previously unpublished papers by linguists engaged in historical reconstruction, on the subject of regularity and irregularity in the comparative method. A number of language families are represented. see all copies from $9.05! new only from $23.07! \| first editions \| SVS
18 view cover	Languages in Contact: The Partial Restructuring of Vernaculars more books like this by John Holm add to wishlist There is widespread agreement that certain non-Creole language varieties are structurally quite different from the European languages out of which they grew; however, until recently, linguists have found difficulty in accounting for either their genesis or their synchronic structure. This study argues that the transmission of source languages from ... see all copies from $27.98! new only from $32.40! \| SVS
19 view cover	Lexicalization and Language Change more books like this by Laurel J Brinton, Elizabeth Close Traugott add to wishlist Lexicalization, a process of language change, has been conceptualized in a variety of ways. Broadly defined as the adoption of concepts into the lexicon, it has been viewed by syntacticians as the reverse process of grammaticalization, by morphologists as a routine process of word-formation, and by semanticists as the development of concrete ... see all copies from $29.82! new only from $33.36! \| first editions \| SVS
20 view cover	Areal Diffusion and Genetic Inheritance: Problems in Comparative Linguistics more books like this by Alexandra Y Aikhenvald (Editor), R M W Dixon (Editor) add to wishlist Two languages can resemble each other in the categories, constructions, and types of meaning they use; and in the forms they employ to express these. Such resemblances may be the consequence of universal characteristics of language, of chance or coincidence, of the borrowing by one language of another's words, or of the diffusion of grammatical, ... see all copies from $49.75! new only from $49.75! \| SVS
21 view cover	Knowledge and Learning in Natural Language more books like this by Charles D Yang add to wishlist This book presents a new theory of how children acquire language and discusses its implications for a wide range of topics. It explores the roles of innateness and experience in language acquisition, provides further evidence for the theory of Universal Grammar, and shows how linguistic development in children is a driving force behind language ... see all copies from $17.99! new only from $17.99! \| first editions \| SVS
22 view cover	Linguistic Universals and Language Change more books like this by Jeff Good (Editor) add to wishlist This book looks at the relationship between linguistic universals and language change. Reflecting the resurgence of work in both fields over the last two decades, it addresses two related issues of central importance in linguistics: the balance between synchronic and diachronic factors in accounting for universals of linguistic structure, and the ... see all copies from $38.66! new only from $41.62! \| first editions
23 view cover	Language Evolution more books like this by Simon Kirby (Editor), Morten Christiansen (Editor) add to wishlist What is it that makes us human? This is one of the most challenging and important questions we face. Our species' defining characteristic is language - we appear to be unique in the natural world in having such an incredibly open-ended system for putting thoughts into words. If we are to truly understand ourselves as a species we must understand ... see all copies from $28.56! new only from $41.62! \| SVS
24 view cover	Linguistic Evolution: With Special Reference to English more books like this by M L Samuels, S R Anderson (Editor), J Bresnan (Editor) add to wishlist Professor Samuels presents a comprehensive explanation of the reasons for linguistic change, applying his theory in particular to the history of English. He assesses and mediates between the conflicting dogmas of different schools of linguistics, and offers an alternative theory of linguistic change which is basically simple but has the scope to ... see all copies from $15.00! new only from $37.90! \| first editions \| SVS
25 view cover	Experimental Approaches to Phonology more books like this by Maria-Josep Sole (Editor), Patrice Speeter Beddor (Editor), Manjari Ohala (Editor) add to wishlist This wide-ranging survey of experimental methods in phonetics and phonology shows the insights and results provided by different methods of investigation, including laboratory-based, statistical, psycholinguistic, computational-modeling, corpus, and field techniques. The five chapters in the first part of the book examine the recent history and ... see all copies from $48.01! new only from $53.81! \| first editions

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