Bøker av Charles (University of Edinburgh Jones

Part of the "Longman Linguistics Library" series, this text examines the extent to which synchronic theoretical models have been found useful or wanting as accounts of temporal language mutation and progress in the production of general models which provide explanations for language change itself.

An attempt to view historical phonological change as an ongoing, recurrent process, a phenomenon which the author feels is disguised by too great a reliance upon certain characteristics of the scholarly tradition.