the gift of language Author:Margaret Schlauch The GIFT of LANGUAGE (first issued and THE GIFT OF TONGUES) is a middle-path book aobut languages and their study. Written by a first-rate linguistic scholar, it avoids both superficiality and technical ponderousness. — The author will make interesting for you family relationships among languages; gramatical processes -- illustrated from such co... more »lorful languages as Aztec, Maya, and Ewe; the formation of words -- their wanderings, disguises, dresses before they reached modern English. She also analyses historical changes in sounds -- whereby Shakespeare, to the modern ear, would sound as if he were speaking Irish dialect.« less
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