A new and exciting introduction to linguistics, this textbook presents language in all its amazing complexity, while guiding students gently through the basics.
In this fascinating survey of everything from how sounds become speech to how names work, David Crystal answers every question you might ever have had about the
This new introduction to linguistics presents language in all its amazing complexity, while guiding students gently through the basics. Students emerge with an
What could Greek poets or Roman historians say in their own language that would be lost in translation? After all, different languages have different personalit