Speak
Subtitle: a short history of languages
By: Tore Janson.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 301
Subjects: Historical linguistics
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [283]-290) and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: List of Maps vi; title: List of Tables vi; title: Preface vii; title: 1. Languages Before History I; title: 2. The Large Language Groups 29; title: 3. Writing and the Egyptians 57; title: 4. Greek and the Greeks 69; title: 5. Latin and the Romans 89; title: 6. Did Dante Write in Italian? 108; title: 7. From Germanic to Modern English 129; title: 8. The Era of National Languages 165; title: 9. Languages of Europe and of the World 184; title: 10. How Languages Are Born-or Made 202; title: II. How Languages Disappear 232; title: 12. The Heyday of English 251; title: 13. And Then? 267; title: Suggestions for Further Reading 283; title: Index 291.