Historical linguistics
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The Power of Babel: A Natural History of Language
$18.99 Add to cart“An essay in origins … as theoretical as Hawking and Gorst in trying to see into the deep past. McWhorter is a clear and witty writer.”– Harper’s
In the first book written for the layperson about th
- Author: McWhorter, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: January 07 2003
- ISBN10: 006052085X
- Language: English
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Empires of the Word: A Language History of the World
$22.99 Add to cartNicholas Ostler’s Empires of the Word is the first history of the world’s great tongues, gloriously celebrating the wonder of words that binds communities together and makes possible both the living o
- Author: Ostler, Nicholas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 640
- Publish Date: June 27 2006
- ISBN10: 0060935723
- Language: English
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Babel: Around the World in Twenty Languages
$19.00 Add to cartEnglish is the world language, except that most of the world doesn’t speak it–only one in five people does. Dorren calculates that to speak fluently with half of the world’s 7.4 billion people in the… [more below]
- Author: Dorren, Gaston
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: December 17 2019
- ISBN10: 0802147801
- Language: English
