Fox Anthony: Linguistic Reconstruction: An Introduction to Theory and Method
Скачать книгу (размер 1 982 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 390) Аннотация: How and why are languages constantly changing? Historical lingustics seeks to find out by going beyond the history of individual languages to discover the general principles which underlie language change. But our evidence is severely limited. Most of the world's languages are still unwritten, and even in areas with long written traditions, such as Europe and the Near East, documentary evidence…