McWhorter, John H. <br/><br/>
The power of Babel :  a natural history of language / 
John H. McWhorter. 
 - 1st ed. 
 - New York :  Times Books,  2001. 
 - 327 p. :  ill. ;  25 cm. 
<br/><br/> "A W.H. Freeman book." 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (p. 305-315) and index. 
<br/><br/>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" 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0716744732 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2001001702 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Historical linguistics.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>P140  / .M34 2001 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>417/.7