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This new textbook will be accessible to all students with only an elementary knowledge of linguistics. In the first half of the book Dr McMahon analyses changes from from every area of grammar. In the second she addresses recent developments in socio-historical linguistics, and looks at such topics as language contact, linguistic variation, pidgins and creoles, and language death.McMahon, April M. S. is the author of 'Understanding Language Change', published 1994 under ISBN 9780521446655 and ISBN 0521446651.
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