Research Guide on Language Change (Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs)
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Published: February 1991
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 564
ISBN-13: 9783110120462
Subjects: Historical & comparative linguistics; Historical Linguistics; Language Arts / Linguistics / Literacy; Language; Linguistics; Linguistic change; Reconstruction (Linguistics)
First sentence: It is obviously a truism to state that ever since man directed his attention to language, he was puzzled by the problem of its diversification - hence the story of the tower of Babel.