The Loom of Language
- ISBN-10
- 039330034X
- ISBN-13
- 9780393300345
- Category
- Language Arts & Disciplines
- Pages
- 692
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1985
- Publisher
- W. W. Norton & Company
- Author
- Frederick Bodmer
Description
Here is an informative introduction to language: its origins in the past, its growth through history, and its present use for communication between peoples. It is at the same time a history of language, a guide to foreign tongues, and a method for learning them. It shows, through basic vocabularies, family resemblances of languages -- Teutonic, Romance, Greek -- helpful tricks of translation, key combinations of roots and phonetic patterns. It presents by common-sense methods the most helpful approach to the mastery of many languages; it condenses vocabulary to a minimum of essential words; it simplifies grammar in an entirely new way; and it teaches a language as it is actually used in everyday life.
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