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Item Information   Holdings     Author Notes & Sketches     Fiction & Biography             Publisher Weekly Review         Summary     Table of Contents       More by this author     Dorren, Gaston author.     Subjects     Language and culture -- Europe.     Philology.     Language and languages -- Variation.     Europe -- Languages.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Dorren, Gaston author.       by title:      Lingo : around Europ...         MARC Display

Lingo : around Europe in sixty languages / Gaston Dorren ; with contributions by Jenny Audring, Frauke Watson, and Alison Edwards (translation). by Dorren, Gaston author. Subjects Language and culture -- Europe.   Philology.   Language and languages -- Variation.   Europe -- Languages. Publisher Info:  New York : Atlantic Monthly Press, [2015] ©2015 Description:  303 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm RDA Types:  text unmediated volume ISBN:  9780802124074 : 0802124070 : 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, wird, wurds ... : written and spoken -- Nuts and bolts : languages and their vocabulary -- Talking by the talk : 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. Format Book:  Summary:  "Spins the reader on a whirlwind tour of sixty European languages and dialects, sharing quirky moments from their histories and exploring their commonalities and differences ... [and taking] us into today's remote mountain villages of Switzerland, where Romansh is still the lingua franca, to formerly Soviet Belarus, a country whose language was Russified by the Bolsheviks, to Sweden, where up until the 1960s polite speaking conventions required that one never use the word 'you' in conversation"--Amazon.com. No. of Holds:  0   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Status   Marion Public Library Top Floor 410 DOR Checked In Add Copy to MyList Format: HTMLPlain textDelimited Subject:   Email to:

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