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001 2001001702
003 DLC
005 20050211211044.0
008 010320s2001 nyua b 001 0 eng
010 $a 2001001702
020 $a0716744732
040 $aDLC$cDLC$dDLC
050 00 $aP140$b.M34 2001
082 00 $a417/.7$221
100 1 $aMcWhorter, John H.
245 14 $aThe power of Babel :$ba natural history of language /$cJohn H. McWhorter.
250 $a1st ed.
260 $aNew York :$bTimes Books,$c2001.
300 $a327 p. :$bill. ;$c25 cm.
500 $a"A W.H. Freeman book."
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 305-315) and index.
505 8 $aMachine generated contents note: 1 The First Language Morphs into Six Thousand New Ones -- 2 The Six Thousand Languages Develop into Clusters of Sublanguages -- 3 The Thousands of Dialects Mix with One Another -- 4 Some Languages Are Crushed to Powder but Rise Again as New Ones -- 5 The Thousands of Dialects of Thousands of Languages All Develop Far Beyond the Call of Duty -- 6 Some Languages Get Genetically Altered and Frozen -- 7 Most of the World's Languages Went Extinct -- Epilogue: "Extra, Extra! The Language of Adam and Eve".
650 0 $aHistorical linguistics.
856 42 $3Contributor biographical information$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/bios/hol053/2001001702.html
856 42 $3Publisher description$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/description/hol041/2001001702.html
856 41 $3Table of contents$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/fy031/2001001702.html