Ebook: Understanding Language Change

For a full list of titles in the Understanding Language series, please visit https://www.routledge.com/Understanding-Language/book-series/ULAN

Understanding Language Change offers a complete introduction to historical linguistics and language change. The book takes a step-by-step approach, first by introducing concepts through English examples and building on this with illustrations from other languages.

Key features of this introductory text include:

• up to date and recent case studies at the end of each chapter
• chapter summaries and exercises that feature a wide range of languages
• coverage of application of historical linguistics in each chapter
• glossary of terms

This book is essential reading for any students studying Historical Linguistics for the first time.