LANGUAGE IN INDIA

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Volume 11 : 11 November 2011
ISSN 1930-2940

Managing Editor: M. S. Thirumalai, Ph.D.
Editors: B. Mallikarjun, Ph.D.
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         L. Ramamoorthy, Ph.D.

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Historical Linguistics. Herbert Schendl. Oxford Introductions to Language Study. Ed. by H. G. Widdowson. Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press. 2001

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Summaira Sarfraz

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G. Baskaran, Ph.D.
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Historical Linguistics is written by Herbert Schendl in the series of Oxford Introduction to Language study. The book is based on comprehensive survey of the crucial issues of historical linguistics. Schendl in this survey has very successfully served the purpose of making people understand the complex ideas related to historical linguistics in the most simplistic way so to make linguistics relevant to people in the wider world.

While reading this book, one realizes that it does not require a particular expertise in the area of linguistics to understand and explore ideas. The survey provides the preliminary information for readers and encourages more critical and detailed study. The survey is not only useful for those who want to use the information for academic purposes but also for those people who want to study language “ for their own lines of enquiry, or for their own practical purposes, or quite simply for making them aware of something which figures so centrally in their everyday lives.”

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Summaira Sarfraz
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FAST- National University of Computer and Emerging Sciences
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Lahore, Pakistan
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