Language History, Language Change, and Language Relationship formatIsbn:Softcover - 9783110214291 a story of the modern

a story of the modern West

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Language History, Language Change, and Language Relationship formatIsbn:Softcover - 9783110214291 a story of the modernWhy 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 English 'one people divided by a common language'? And how can the language of Chaucer and Modern English or Modern British and American English still be