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Are some languages better than others? / R.M.W. Dixon.
LIBRA P143 .D59 2016
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Dixon, Robert M. W., 1939- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Comparative linguistics.
- Typology (Linguistics).
- Grammar, Comparative and general.
- Physical Description:
- vii, 272 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2016.
- Contents:
- 1 Setting the scene 1
- 2 How languages work 23
- 3 What is necessary 47
- 4 What is desirable 75
- 5 What is not (really) needed 107
- 6 How about complexity? 125
- 7 How many words should there be? 147
- 8 The limits of a language 173
- 9 Better for what purpose? 193
- 10 An ideal language 213
- 11 Facing up to the question 245.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-266) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0198766815
- 9780198766810
- OCLC:
- 918931498
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