Story of Language Revised Edition 4TH Print
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| Rating | : | 4.50 (536 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B001TAK5GE |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 491 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 0000-00-00 |
| Language | : | English |
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Story of Language Revised Edition 4TH Print book has been released since 0000-00-00. Story of Language Revised Edition 4TH Print are written by Mario Pei and it has 491 of pages on paperback.
Betty J Smith said I am satisfied.. Just started reading. Very interesting book, in ok condition. Yes, I am satisfied.. A good introduction to the wonders of language Adelie Long ago, I learned that language is the second most complex thing humans learn (the first is time, because it's purely abstract.) That piqued my curiosity about it - how the first languages developed; why they are simultaneously so different and so similar; the ways in which history and language are intertwined; the development of the minutiae of grammar; how we learn language, syntax, vocabulary, and writing; the differing ways cultures have dealt with their specific linguistic needs, and why I wanted it all.This book answered some of my questions in. magellan said Still a classic introduction. The late Mario Pei was professor of comparative romance philology at Columbia University, and this book is still one of the few introductions to linguistics that is accessible by the layman. There's not much on Chomskyan transformational grammar and other very technical topics in linguistics, but that's okay, there is a lot to learn about the basic structure and nature of language before one should be tackling Chomsky.This includes basic concepts about grammar and the parts of speech, the basic principles of word morphology, phonetics, and phonology, l