Charles Laurence Barber (1915–2000)
Autor(a) de The English Language: A Historical Introduction
About the Author
Obras de Charles Laurence Barber
The Flux of Language 1 exemplar(es)
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Conhecimento Comum
- Outros nomes
- Barber, C. L.
Barber, Charles L. - Data de nascimento
- 1915
- Data de falecimento
- 2000
- Sexo
- male
- Nacionalidade
- United Kingdom
- País (para mapa)
- United Kingdom
- Educação
- Cambridge University (MA)
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Estatísticas
- Obras
- 11
- Also by
- 1
- Membros
- 519
- Popularidade
- #47,860
- Avaliação
- 3.6
- Resenhas
- 2
- ISBNs
- 25
My main point of critique is that too many pages are devoted to sound laws while too few pages deal with culture and mentality. Some more illustrations and tables wouldn't have hurt, either. That is offset, though, by the general professionalism throughout, as well as some excellent chapters on Proto-Indo-European and Germanic. Those chapters in particular were a refreshing read, because they managed to convey something of the complexity of the issues without dumbing them down or oversimplifying; they deal very lucidly with obscure-ish matters in ways that feel eye-opening rather than a received summary of long-established scholarship.
There probably exist dozens, if not hundreds of books like this (I myself own several). If your main interest is linguistic, and if you're particularly drawn to the older stages of the language (especially pre-Old English) -- then this book has chapters on offer that outclass its competitors. If not -- this one will do as well as any other, and probably a bit better than most.… (mais)