The Rise and Fall of Languages by R.M.W. Dixon

The Rise and Fall of Languages

R.M.W. Dixon

176 pages first pub 1997 (editions)

nonfiction science informative slow-paced
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This book puts forward a new approach to language change, the punctuated equilibrium model. This is based on the premise that during most of the 100,000 or more years that humans have had language, states of equilibrum have existed during which li...

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