Lingo: A Language Spotter's Guide to Europe - Couverture souple

Dorren, Gaston

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1781254176 ISBN 13 : 9781781254172

Editeur : Profile Books Ltd, 2015

Synopsis

Welcome to Europe as you've never known it before, seen through the peculiarities of its languages and dialects. Combining linguistics and cultural history, Gaston Dorren takes us on an intriguing tour of the continent, from Proto-Indo-European (the common ancestor of most European languages) to the rise and rise of English, via the complexities of Welsh plurals and Czech pronunciation. Along the way we learn why Esperanto will never catch on, how the language of William the Conqueror lives on in the Channel Islands and why Finnish is the easiest European language.

Surprising, witty and full of extraordinary facts, this book will change the way you think about the languages around you. Polyglot Gaston Dorren might even persuade you that English is like Chinese.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Gaston Dorren has written two Dutch books on language and contributes regularly to Onze Taal, a popular linguistics magazine. A true polyglot, Gaston speaks Dutch, Limburgish, English, German and Spanish, and reads French, Afrikaans, Frisian, Portuguese, Italian, Catalan, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish, Luxembourgish and Esperanto.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Profile Books Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2015
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1781254176
• ISBN 13: 9781781254172
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 304
• Éditeur: Buckley Jonathan
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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