On Language Change
Subtitle: The Invisible Hand in Language
Publisher: Routledge
Published: January 5, 1995
Language: eng
Number of pages: 196
ISBN-13: 9780415076722
First sentence: In central Australia, where the rivers Murray and Darling meet, there lives a small group of aborigines who were forced to change their word for water nine times in five years, each time because the man had died whose name had been the accepted word for water while he was alive.