Publication

1995-01-05 - Routledge

Language

English

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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Other Editions

  • On Language Change: The Invisible Hand in LanguageRoutledge1995-01-05
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