Diachronic English Linguistics: An Introduction

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Gunter Narr Verlag, 2003 - English language - 185 pages

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Methods used in diachronic linguistics
15
Evidence of linguistic change
35
Motivations for linguistic change
61
Phonological changes
75
Grammatical changes
97
Diachronic wordformation
125
Diachronic semantics
133
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