Nicholas Ostler

Empires of the Word (eBook, ePUB)

A Language History of the World

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

An unusual and authoritative 'natural history of languages' that narrates the ways in which one language has superseded or outlasted another at different times in history.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: HarperCollins Publishers
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Februar 2010
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780007364893
• Artikelnr.: 39956658

Autorenporträt

Nicholas Ostler is a scholar and scientist of languages, who has a working knowledge of 26 languages and who, five years ago, set up the Foundation for Endangered Languages, an international organisation, to provide funding and support to document and revitilise languages in peril. With his own company Linguacubun Ltd., he regularly advises governments and corporations on policy in the field of computers and natural language processing.

Rezensionen

"[A] wide-ranging history of the world's languages... [Ostler] brilliantly raises questions and supplies answers or theories." Washington Post