Download or read book Language Change written by Mari C. Jones and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2011-08-02 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume focuses on the interface of different motivating factors that contribute to language change. It combines linguistic case studies with current theoretical debate and contains hitherto unpublished data from English, French, Karaim, Modern Greek, Jordanian, Spanish, Latin and Arabic.