1 Language is always changing
2 English in the past
3 Borrowing words
4 Creating words
5 Change in pronunciation
6 Change in spelling
7 Change in grammar
8 Change in meaning
9 The origin of dialects
10 Relatedness between languages
11 More remote relations
12 The birth and death of languages
13 Attitudes towards language change
14 Putting it all together
Further reading
Appendix
Index
注釈
【原著者】
R. L. Trask(R・L・トラスク)
元サセックス大学言語学教授(専門 歴史言語学、バスク語)
1944年生まれ、2004年没
[おもな著書] A Dictionary of Grammatical Terms in Linguistics (1993), Historical Linguistics (1996), The History of Basque (1997)