Languages: A Very Short Introduction

How many languages are there? What differentiates one language from another? Are new languages still being discovered? Why are so many languages disappearing? These are some of the questions considered in this Very Short Introduction. By examining the science of languages, we find that the answers are not as simple as we might expect.

• | By (Author): Stephen (Dorothy R. Diebold Professor Of Linguistics, Yale University) Anderson
• | Publisher: Oxford University Press
• | Publication Date: Jun 28, 2012
• | Country of Publication: United Kingdom
• | Number of Pages: 152 pages
• | Language: Unknown
• | Binding: Softback
• | ISBN-10: 0199590591
• | ISBN-13: 9780199590599