The Five-Minute Linguist - Bite-sized Essays on Language and Languages Second Edition - E.M. Rickerson
What’s the right way to put words together?
The Five-Minute Linguist - Bite-sized Essays on Language and Languages Second Edition - E.M. Rickerson
Dennis R. Preston
Description
Words and combinations of words don’t have a ‘real’ meaning. They only mean what we agree they’ll mean, and different groups may come to different agreements. Besides, language isn’t a fixed system. It evolves.