Description
'It is language, more obviously than anything else, that distinguishes man from the rest of the animal world.'
Beginning with primitive man's first crude attempts at communication by sound, this outstanding book traces the development over thousands of years of organized language and its various 'families'.
In the second half, the author explains the emergence of English from its roots in the Indo-European 'family', its evolution through the Middle Ages and down to our own day; he gives copious quotations from the literature of different periods.
Thorough yet concise, scholarly yet abounding in common-sense, THE STORY OF LANGUAGE is an important and brilliantly written exposition for the general reader of a subject of the greatest interest.
ISBN:STORYOFLANGUA
