On Language Change
The Invisible Hand in Language
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Word Count
49,000 words, Guess
Page Count
196 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL7482178M
- ISBN-100415076722
- ISBN-139780415076722
- LibraryThing664941
- Goodreads2107612
First Sentence
In central Australia, where the rivers Murray and Darling meet, there lives a small group of aborigines who were forced to change their word for water nine times in five years, each time because the man had died whose name had been the accepted word for water while he was alive.
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- On Language Change: The Invisible Hand in Language
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