Bauer Laurie. Watching English Change: An Introduction to the Study of Linguistic Change in Standard Englishes in the 20th Century

Longman, 1994. — (Learning about Language). — ISBN: 0-582-210895.Содержит упражнения и ответы к ним.Examines the ways language has changed in the twentieth century. It concentrates on standard English and takes a historical rather than sociolinguistic view of the changes which have occurred.Background to this book
Observing language change
Predictions from observations
Plan of campaign
Lexical changeChanges in vocabulary sources and the makeup of words
Use of the suffixes
Grammatical change
A corpus
Comparative and superlative marking
Concord with collective nouns
Relative clauses
Methodological observations
Sound changeChange of stress
Yod-dropping
Vowel change
Methodological observations
Other changes
Punctuation and formal aspects of writing
Spelling
Modes of address
Engineered change
Methodological observations
Theoretical perspectiveThe constraints problem
The transition problem
The embedding problem
The evaluation problem
The actuation problem
Limitations and prospect