Essays cover approaches to researching linguistic change, alterations in sounds, word forms, sentence structure, and meaning, and differing explanations for language developments.[...]
"The Handbook of Historical Linguistics" provides a detailed account of the numerous issues, methods, and results that characterize current work in historical linguistics, the area of linguistics most directly concerned with language change as well as past language states. This title contains an ext[...]
Why does language change? Why can we speak to and understand our parents but have trouble reading Shakespeare? Why is Chaucer's English of the fourteenth century so different from Modern English of the late twentieth century that the two are essentially different languages? Why are Americans and Eng[...]
The Classic Guide to Solving Real-World Problems with Perl-Now Fully Updated for Today's Best Idioms! For years, experienced programmers have relied on Effective Perl Programming to discover better ways to solve problems with Perl. Now, in this long-awaited second edition, three renowned Perl progra[...]