A linguist’s entertaining and highly informed guide to what languages are and how they function. Think you know language? Think again. There are languages tha

A “monumental” account of the rise and fall of languages, with “many fresh insights, useful historical anecdotes, and charming linguistic oddities” (Chi

This important book proposes a new account of the nature of language, founded upon an original interpretation of Wittgenstein. The authors deny the existence of

Word lists lie at the heart of good vocabulary course design, the development of graded materials for extensive listening and extensive reading, research on voc