372 Pages
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Routledge
372 Pages
by
Routledge
368 Pages
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Routledge
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Morris Swadesh, one of this century's foremost scientific investigators of language, dedicated much of his life to the study of the origin and evolution of language. This volume, left nearly completed at his death and edited posthumously by Joel F. Sherzer, is his last major study of this difficult subject.Swadesh discusses the simple qualities of human speech also present in animal language, and... Read more
1: Language in Space and Time; 2: Modern World Languages; 3: The Genesis of Classic Languages; 4: Language Structure in the Early Local Stage; 5: Out of Animal Cries into Language; 6: The Origin of Vocabulary; 7: The Progress of Babel
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Morris Swadesh
