I Saw the Dog
How Language Works
Every language in the world shares a few common features: we can ask a question, say something belongs to us, and tell someone what to do. But beyond that, our languages are richly and almost infinitely varied: a French speaker can't conceive of a world that isn't split into un and une, male and female, while Estonians have only one word for both men and women: tema. In Dyirbal, an Australian language, things might be masculine, feminine, neuter - or edible vegetable. Every language tells us something about the people who use it. In I Saw the Dog, linguist Alexandra Aikhenvald takes us from the remote swamplands of Papua New Guinea to the uni…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-78283-321-5
- EAN: 9781782833215
- Produktnummer: 31492336
- Verlag: Profile
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
- Plattform: EPUB
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Alexandra Aikhenvald
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