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Why does language change? Why can we speak to and understand our parents but have trouble reading Shakespeare? Why is Ch
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For nearly half a century, Professor M. A. K. Halliday has been enriching the discipline of linguistics with his keen in
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Language is a sophisticated tool which we use to communicate in a multitude of ways. Updated and expanded in its second
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This volume explores the multiple aspects of cyclical syntactic change from a wide range of empirical perspectives. The
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