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6 Cards in this Set
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Samuel Jonshon |
'Tounges have a natural tenancy towards degeneration |
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David Crystal |
New millennium will see more explosive growth in English than the last 400 years. Therefore, future English will be as different from what we speak and write today as modern English is to Shakespeare. |
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McCrum |
Global English breaking free from troubled British and American past and taking on a life of its own. Predicts it will make its own independent break. |
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Coinage |
The creating of new words from scratch |
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Functional theory |
The idea that language changes because a society does |
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Pidgin |
First generation of a contact language |
