Bibliograph

Lingo, around Europe in sixty languages, Dorren Gaston ; with contributions by Jenny Audring, Frauke Watson and Alison Edwards (translation)

Type

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Lingo, around Europe in sixty languages, Dorren Gaston ; with contributions by Jenny Audring, Frauke Watson and Alison Edwards (translation)

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-286) and index

Illustrations

illustrationsmaps

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Lingo

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

939426732

Responsibility statement

Dorren Gaston ; with contributions by Jenny Audring, Frauke Watson and Alison Edwards (translation)

Sub title

around Europe in sixty languages

Table Of Contents

What Europeans speak -- Next of tongue : Languages and their families -- Past perfect discontinuous : Languages and their history -- War and peace : Languages and politics -- Werds, wirds, wurds ... : Written and spoken -- Nuts and bolts : Languages and their vocabulary -- Talking by the book : Languages and their grammar -- Intensive care : Languages on the brink and beyond -- Movers and shakers : Linguists who left their mark -- Warts and all : Linguistic portrait studies

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