Language complexity as an evolving variable /

This fascinating book challenges the idea that languages are equally complex. Eighteen scholars look at evidence from a wide range of times and places. They consider the links between linguistic structure and change and social complexity. Their conclusions challenge conventional ideas about the natu...

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Other Authors: Sampson, Geoffrey, Gil, David, Trudgill, Peter
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2009
Series:Oxford linguistics.
Studies in the evolution of language ; 13.
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Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central