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Скачать книгу (размер 1 544 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 304) Аннотация: This is an introduction to the history of languages, from the distant past to a glimpse at what languages may be like in the distant future. It looks at how languages arise, change, and ultimately vanish, and what lies behind their different destinies. What happens to languages, he argues, has to do with what happens to the people who use them, and what happens to people, individually and…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 585 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 312) Аннотация: - The first history of languages for a hundred years — Concise but comprehensive — Incisive account of controversial issues of language origins and evolution — Links the history of languages to the history of peoples — Utterly non-technical, readable, lively presentation This book is a history of human speech from prehistory to the present. It charts the rise of some languages and the fall of…