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LASS, R., On Explaining Language Change. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge (...), 1980.XIII,186p. Cloth. Small personal library mark and name on free endpaper. A few pen markings and annotations from KJD. 'What Lass offers in his book (…) is an attempt to explain why language change cannot be explained, or more precisely, why none of the reasons advanced so far is truly explanatory.' (SUZANNE ROMAINE in Language in Society, 1983, p.223). From the library of the late Sir Kenneth James Dover. € 29.50 (Antiquarian) ISBN: 9780521228367