| 000 -LEADER |
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| fixed length control field |
01080 a2200193 4500 |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
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| ISBN |
9781107534216 |
| 040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE |
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| Transcribing agency |
IIT Kanpur |
| 041 ## - LANGUAGE CODE |
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| Language code of text/sound track or separate title |
eng |
| 082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER |
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| Classification number |
420.9 |
| Item number |
En36 |
| 245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT |
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| Title |
English historical linguistics |
| Remainder of title |
approaches and perspectives |
| Statement of responsibility, etc |
edited by Laurel J. Brinton |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) |
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| Name of publisher |
Cambridge University Press |
| Year of publication |
2017 |
| Place of publication |
Cambridge |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
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| Number of Pages |
xxii, 410p |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. |
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| Summary, etc |
The generative approach, which took hold in the mid-twentieth century, shifted attention from the history of individual languages to the study of more abstract principles of language; initially its focus was rigidly synchronic. But by 1970, generativists began to turn their attention to language change, seeing it as the result of sudden changes or reanalyses (later understood as changes in parameter settings) and to incomplete or imperfect transmission of grammatical structure during language acquisition |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical Term |
English language -- History |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical Term |
Historical linguistics -- Great Britain |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical Term |
Historical linguistics |
| 700 ## - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Brinton, Laurel J. [ed.] |
| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) |
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| Koha item type |
Books |
