Languages: a very short introduction
Auteur :
Anderson, Stephen
Éditeur :
Oxford University Press
ISBN :
9780199590599
Date de publication :
28 juin 2012
Dimensions :
17,4 x 11,6 x 0,9 cm
Poids :
137 g
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
Grande Bretagne
How many languages are there? What differentiates one language from another? Are new languages still being discovered? Why are so many languages disappearing? These are some of the questions considered in this Very Short Introduction. By examining the science of languages, we find that the answers are not as simple as we might expect.