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It is tempting to take the tremendous rate of contemporary linguistic change for granted. What is required, in fact, is a radical reinterpretation of what langu

This classroom-tested volume aspires to be a brief but technically and factually accurate exposition of linguistic description and history. Whether studied as p

This book presents in a single volume a comprehensive history of the language sciences, from ancient times through to the twentieth century. While there has bee

This volume of essays brings together work by social historians of Britain, France and Italy.

A “monumental” account of the rise and fall of languages, with “many fresh insights, useful historical anecdotes, and charming linguistic oddities” (Chi