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100	1		_aMcWhorter, John H.
245	1	4	_aThe power of Babel : _ba natural history of language / _cJohn H. McWhorter.
250			_a1st ed.
260			_aNew York : _bTimes Books, _c2001.
300			_a327 p. : _bill. ; _c25 cm.
500			_a"A W.H. Freeman book."
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 305-315) and index.
505	8		_aMachine 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"
650		0	_aHistorical linguistics.
856	4	2	_3Contributor biographical information _uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/bios/hol053/2001001702.html
856	4	2	_3Publisher description _uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/description/hol041/2001001702.html
856	4	1	_3Table of contents _uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/fy031/2001001702.html
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