The English Language: Volume 2, Essays by Linguists and Men of Letters, 1858-1964

by Whitney F. Bolton

A collection of statements by literary men and others about the nature and use of the language, its resources, potentialities and development. Volume I covered the period 1490-1839. Volume II starts in 1858 and runs to the 1960s and therefore records the rise first of philology, then of modern linguistic study. Accordingly this volume contains a number of excerpts from the writings of great European and American language-scholars (Sweet, Sapir and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B001KT7D1O
• ISBN13: 9780521095457
• Release Date: June 1969
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 340 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 8.5"