| Description |
1 online resource (xvii, 924 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
Oxford handbooks in linguistics |
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Oxford handbooks in linguistics.
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| Summary |
In the Oxford Handbook of the History of Linguistics leading scholars from around the world explore and discuss the complex of interconnected approaches, skills, and tasks that has characterized the study of language for more than two-and-a-half millennia. These include: understanding how languages originate and change; describing the nature and development of signing and writing systems; investigations of human speech sounds; the description and recording of grammars and lexicons; and explaining the nature of language and its roles in communication, learning, and culture. The endeavor to explain the nature of language and its relation to the world has remained remarkably constant throughout time, scholars and teachers returning to the same or similar problems throughout the ages. The concepts, methods, and findings of previous generations are of great intrinsic interest and also offer valuable insights to current researchers. The Oxford Handbook of the History of Linguistics makes a significant contribution to the historiography of linguistics and at the same time offers a range of expert perspectives on past and current problems and debates |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Online resource; title from home page (viewed Sept. 27, 2013) |
| Subject |
Linguistics -- History.
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Linguistics
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Allan, Keith, 1943- editor.
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| ISBN |
9780191750434 |
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0191750433 |
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0191643432 |
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9780191643439 |
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