It is tempting to take the tremendous rate of contemporary linguistic change for granted. What is required, in fact, is a radical reinterpretation of what langu

This classroom-tested volume aspires to be a brief but technically and factually accurate exposition of linguistic description and history. Whether studied as p

Does not discuss the Semitic languages.

The story of the world in the last five thousand years is above all the story of its languages. Some shared language is what binds any community together and ma

This volume of essays brings together work by social historians of Britain, France and Italy.