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A Natural History Of Language

by John McWhorter
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Publisher: Random House, April of 2011 ‧
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This text provides a guided tour of languages, aiming to be at once both thought-provoking and entertaining. Examining such things as the way in which Yiddish has been influenced by the grammar of Polish, and how English absorbed French at two stages of its history.

Power Of Babel

A Natural History Of Language

by John McWhorter

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ISBN: 9781446472408
Publisher: Random House
Release Date: April of 2011
Language: English
Format: eBook
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Categories: eBooks in English > Fiction > Linguistics and Philology
EAN: 9781446472408
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John McWhorter

John McWhorter (EUA, 1965) é professor de Linguística, Estudos Americanos e História da Música na Columbia University. Colabora com o The New York Times, é editor na The Atlantic e apresenta o podcast Lexicon Valley, sobre língua. Já publicou artigos em orgãos de comunicação como The New Yorker, The Wall Street Journal, Time, The Daily Beast, The New Republic e The Root. É autor de mais de 20 livros, nomeadamente Nine Nasty Words: English in the Gutter, The Power of Babel e Losing the Race.

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