Origins of the English Language
Publisher: Free Press
Published: April 18, 1986
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 436
ISBN-13: 9780029344705
Subjects: Historical & comparative linguistics; Anthropology - General; Reference; Language Arts & Disciplines / Reference; Social Science / General; English Language History; Language Arts / Linguistics / Literacy; English language; History; Sociolinguistics; English
First sentence: When some people argue that histories should tell the truth, they usually mean by truth the straightforward, unadorned facts of what happened.