Is English Changing? [electronic resource] / Betty Birner, Ed.

This brochure discusses, in lay terms, how languages change and how English in particular has gone through much alteration over the ages. It explains that languages change because: the needs of its speakers change; individual experience differs, and, therefore, the uses of language differ; new words...

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Online Access:	Full Text (via ERIC)
Corporate Author:	Linguistic Society of America
Other Authors:	Birner, Betty
Format:	Electronic eBook
Language:	English
Published:	[S.l.] : Distributed by ERIC Clearinghouse, 1999.
Subjects:	Diachronic Linguistics. Dialects. English. Grammatical Acceptability. Language Patterns. Language Styles. Language Variation. Standard Spoken Usage.