TY  - BOOK
AU  - Bynon, Theodora
TI  - Historical linguistics
SN  - 0-521-29188-7
AV  - R P140 B96
PY  - 1999///
CY  - Estados Unidos
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Lenguaje y lenguas
KW  - Lingüística histórica
N2  - Historical Linguistics is concerned with the process of language change through time. In investigates how and why the language of individuals, a social group of a whole 'speech community' develops in respect of its pronunciation, vocabulary and grammar. Dr. Bynon regards language as essentially a dynamic phenomenon, whose character can be at best only partly understood by a static, and necessarily idealized, synchronic approach
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