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Introduction To The Study Of The History Of Language by Herbert Augustus Strong. The work offers a scholarly, comparative account of how languages form words, inflect them, and interact with writing and schooling. It distinguishes descriptive, descriptive-historical, and comparative grammar and argues that language change is largely unconscious, driven by imitation, economy of effort, and social contact. It examines how standards arise and are transmitted: through spoken usage, prestige institutions, and printed texts that fix norms; how a standard coexists with dialects, and how multiple standards can emerge across regions, with English and American English as prominent illustrations. The volume surveys word formation, shifts in meaning, and analogy, showing how phonology, semantics, and syntax interlock; and how writing, printing, and orthography reforms mediate but also distort speech. It situates conclusions in a cross-linguistic frame, drawing examples from Germanic, Romance, and other languages, while stressing careful methodology, and the aim to equip readers to study the original works.
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