Philip Gooden: The Story of English: How the English Language Conquered the World
Скачать книгу (размер 1 687 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 332) Аннотация: Born as a Germanic tongue with the arrival in Britain of the Anglo-Saxons in the early medieval period, heavily influenced by Norman French from the 11th century, and finally emerging as modern English from the late Middle Ages, the English language has grown to become the linguistic equivalent of a superpower, and is now sometimes described as the world's lingua franca. Worldwide some 380…