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New Titles - Foreign Languages
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Origin Uncertain: Unraveling the Mysteries of Etymology
Anatoly Liberman - Oxford University Press
Format: Hardcover
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Lost origins of words revealed. . We like to recount that goodbye started out as "god be with you," that whiskey comes from the Gaelic for "water of life," or that avocado originated as the Aztec word for "testicle." But there are many words with origins unknown,... |
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Living Latin: Everyday Language and Popular Culture (Rubicon)
Charlie Kerrigan - Bloomsbury Academic
Format: Paperback
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What kind of language is Latin, and who is it for? Contrary to most accounts, this book tells the story of Latin as a language of ordinarypeople. Surveying the whole span of the language's history, it explores the evidence that exists for everyday Latin around the Roman world, arguing... |
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The Secrets of Words
Noam Chomsky - The MIT Press
Format: Hardcover
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Two distinguished linguists on language, the history of science, misplaced euphoria, surprising facts, and potentially permanent mysteries.. In The Secrets of Words, influential linguist Noam Chomsky and his longtime colleague Andrea Moro have a wide-ranging conversation, touching on such... |
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The Language Puzzle: Piecing Together the Six-Million-Year Story of How Words Evolved
Steven Mithen - Basic Books
Format: Hardcover
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A top scholar reveals the most complete picture to date of how early human speech led to the languages we use today . The emergence of language began with the apelike calls of our earliest ancestors. Today, the world is home to thousands of complex languages. Yet exactly how, when, and why this... |
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