Only God speaks Kamassian
Walter Nash, 7 January 1988
The World’s Major Languages
edited by Bernard Comrie.
Croom Helm, 1025 pp., £50, March 1988,9780709932437 Show More
edited by Bernard Comrie.
Croom Helm, 1025 pp., £50, March 1988,
Studies in Lexicography
edited by Robert Burchfield.
Oxford, 200 pp., £27.50, April 1988,0 19 811945 3 Show More
edited by Robert Burchfield.
Oxford, 200 pp., £27.50, April 1988,
Van Winkle’s Return: Change in American English 1966-1986
by Kenneth Wilson.
University Press of New England, 193 pp., £7.95, August 1988,0 87451 394 4 Show More
by Kenneth Wilson.
University Press of New England, 193 pp., £7.95, August 1988,
Words at Work: Lectures on Textual Structure
by Randolph Quirk.
Longman, 137 pp., £5.75, March 1988,9780582001206 Show More
by Randolph Quirk.
Longman, 137 pp., £5.75, March 1988,
The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Language
by David Crystal.
Cambridge, 472 pp., £25, November 1988,0 521 26438 3 Show More
by David Crystal.
Cambridge, 472 pp., £25, November 1988,
“... four thousand languages are spoken in the world today (‘at a very conservative estimate,’ says Bernard Comrie), and we know that everywhere they challenge our culture-bound ideas of what speech-sounds, writing systems, morphologies, patterns of syntax and discourse conventions should be like. To become acquainted with the structure of at least one ... ”
