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A thorough review of the worldwide problem of language endangerment and death.

Annotation Originally published in 1921, this classic is still regarded as one of the clearest, most comprehensive descriptions of language for the general reader. Index.

Since its first publication in 1962 the book has established itself as core reading for students of linguistics. This edition has been thoroughly revised.

But now, acclaimed linguist Guy Deutscher has dared to reopen the issue. Can culture influence language—and vice versa? Can different languages lead their speakers to different thoughts?

This book challenges media-celebrated evolutionary studies linking Indo-European languages to Neolithic Anatolia, instead defending traditional practices in historical linguistics.

This book suggests a new theory on the origins and Urheimat of the Turks within the context of Central Eurasia and, more properly, the South Urals, by exploring the relations of the Turkic language with the Altaic, Uralic and Indo-European ...

Some structural features of languages predict others, some remain unchanged in daughter languages, others have an areal consistency; in establishing typologically, historically and geographically stable features in the worlds languages, ...

Jack D. Forbes's monumental Africans and Native Americans has become a canonical text in the study of relations between the two groups.

English Words: History and Structure is concerned primarily with the learned vocabulary of English, the words borrowed from the classical languages.