The relationship between “language change” and “language evolution” has recently become subject to some debate regarding the scope of both concepts. It has been claimed …
Research on language evolution is an established subject area yet permeated by terminological controversies about which topics should be considered pertinent to the field …
C Zhang, H Liu - Journal of Chinese Linguistics, 2019 - JSTOR
This study quantitatively investigated word frequencies in parallel Chinese texts at three different periods, namely, Classical Chinese (1855), Beijing Mandarin (1908) and Modern …