Publisher's Synopsis
This text provides a guided tour of languages. It examines such things as the way in which Yiddish has been influenced by the grammar of Polish, and how English absorbed French at two stages of its history.
The Power of Babel A Natural History of Language
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| ISBN: | 9780434007899 |
| Publisher: | Heinemann |
| Imprint: | Heinemann |
| Pub date: | 07 Mar 2002 |
| DEWEY: | 417.7 |
| DEWEY edition: | 21 |
| Number of pages: | 327 |
| Weight: | -1g |
| Height: | 234mm |
| Width: | 156mm |
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