No detailed description available for "The Prehistory of Languages".

Compiled in honor and celebration of veteran anthropologist Harold C. Fleming, this book contains 23 articles by anthropologists (in the general sense) from the

This book is a history of human speech from prehistory to the present. It charts the rise of some languages and the fall of others, explaining why some survive

Does not discuss the Semitic languages.

It is tempting to take the tremendous rate of contemporary linguistic change for granted. What is required, in fact, is a radical reinterpretation of what langu