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Historical linguistics --- Historical linguistics --- Linguistic analysis (Linguistics) --- Linguistic change --- Metalanguage --- History --- History --- History

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Philosophy of language --- Historical linguistics --- Linguistic change --- Language and languages --- Anthropological linguistics --- Origin --- Anthropological linguistics. --- Historical linguistics. --- Linguistic change. --- Origin. --- Change, Linguistic --- Language change --- Origin of languages --- Speech --- Diachronic linguistics --- Dynamic linguistics --- Evolutionary linguistics --- Language and history --- Linguistics --- Anthropo-linguistics --- Ethnolinguistics --- Language and ethnicity --- Linguistic anthropology --- Linguistics and anthropology --- Anthropology --- Language and culture --- History --- Language and languages - Origin

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This specially commissioned volume considers the processes involved in language change and the issues of how they can be modelled and studied. The way languages change offers an insight into the nature of language itself, its internal organisation, and how it is acquired and used. Accordingly, the phenomenon of language change has been approached from a variety of perspectives by linguists of many different orientations. This book, originally published in 2003, brings together an international team of leading figures from different areas of linguistics to re-examine some of the central issues in this field and also to discuss new proposals. The volume is arranged into sections, including grammaticalisation, the typological perspective, the social context of language change and contact-based explanations. It seeks to cover the subject as a whole, bearing in mind its relevance for the general analysis of language, and will appeal to a broad international readership.

Linguistic change --- Languages in contact --- Linguistic models --- Linguistic change. --- Linguistic models. --- Contactlinguïstiek. --- Linguïstische modellen. --- Taalverandering. --- Sociolinguistics --- Dialectology --- 800 --- Models, Linguistic --- Linguistics --- Typology (Linguistics) --- Change, Linguistic --- Language change --- Historical linguistics --- Language and languages --- Areal linguistics --- 800 Taalwetenschap. Taalkunde. Linguistiek --- Taalwetenschap. Taalkunde. Linguistiek --- Arts and Humanities --- Language & Linguistics --- Languages in contact.

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How and why did grammatical gender, found in Old English and in other Germanic languages, gradually disappear from English and get replaced by a system where the gender of nouns and the use of personal pronouns depend on the natural gender of the referent? How is this shift related to 'irregular agreement' (such as she for ships) and 'sexist' language use (such as generic he) in Modern English, and how is the language continuing to evolve in these respects? Anne Curzan's accessibly written and carefully researched study is based on extensive corpus data, and will make a major contribution by providing a historical perspective on these often controversial questions. It will be of interest to researchers and students in history of English, historical linguistics, corpus linguistics, language and gender, and medieval studies.

English language --- Linguistic change. --- Change, Linguistic --- Language change --- Historical linguistics --- Language and languages --- Gender. --- Grammar, Historical. --- Linguistic change --- Gender --- Grammar, Historical --- 802.0-02 --- 802.0-02 Engels. Engelse taalkunde--?-02 --- Engels. Engelse taalkunde--?-02 --- Grammar --- Arts and Humanities --- Language & Linguistics --- Germanic languages

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Develop students' ability to rewrite texts for new contexts, based around the skills specified in assessment objectives for AS and A2 Level English.

English language --- Style, Literary. --- Linguistic change. --- Change, Linguistic --- Language change --- Historical linguistics --- Language and languages --- Literature --- Style, Literary --- Rhetoric --- English literature --- Style. --- Style --- Metrics and rhythmics --- Germanic languages --- Literary style.