The power of Babel:
by McWhorter, John H.
Edition statement:1st ed. Published by : Times Books, (New York :) Physical details: 327 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. ISBN:0716744732. Year: 2001Item type | Current location | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
![]() |
JST Library General Stacks | P Languages & Literatures |
P 140 MAC (Browse shelf) | Available | 99923 |
"A W.H. Freeman book."
Includes bibliographical references (p. 305-315) and index.
Machine generated contents note: 1 The First Language Morphs into Six Thousand New Ones -- 2 The Six Thousand Languages Develop into Clusters of Sublanguages -- 3 The Thousands of Dialects Mix with One Another -- 4 Some Languages Are Crushed to Powder but Rise Again as New Ones -- 5 The Thousands of Dialects of Thousands of Languages All Develop Far Beyond the Call of Duty -- 6 Some Languages Get Genetically Altered and Frozen -- 7 Most of the World's Languages Went Extinct -- Epilogue: "Extra, Extra! The Language of Adam and Eve".
There are no comments for this item.