The power of Babel :
McWhorter, John H.
The power of Babel : a natural history of language / John H. McWhorter. - 1st ed. - New York : Times Books, 2001. - 327 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
"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"
0716744732
2001001702
Historical linguistics.
P140 / .M34 2001
417/.7
The power of Babel : a natural history of language / John H. McWhorter. - 1st ed. - New York : Times Books, 2001. - 327 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
"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"
0716744732
2001001702
Historical linguistics.
P140 / .M34 2001
417/.7