The Rise and Fall of Languages
Häftad bok. Cambridge University Press. 1997. 170 sidor.
Nära nyskick. Språk: Engelska "This book offers a penetrating new look at a number of interrelated and hotly debated theoretical issues in comparative-historical linguistics. With clarity and good humor, Dixon reexamines such notions as the constancy of the rate of linguistic change, the rigid dichtonomy between generic and contact relationship, and the simplistic family tree model of linguistic diversification. Dixon is at his provocative best attacking unprovable 'megalocomparative' proposals of distant genetic relationship. This book is required reading for anyone seriously interested in what we can honestly recover from the past history of languages".