TY - BOOK AU - Bodmer,Frederick AU - Hogben,Lancelot Thomas TI - The loom of language AV - P121 .B6 U1 - 400 PY - 1944/// CY - New York PB - Farrar & Rinehart, Inc., distributed by W.W. Norton & Co. KW - Language and languages KW - Glossaries, vocabularies, etc KW - Linguistica KW - larpcal KW - Historische taalwetenschap KW - gtt KW - Taalvergelijking KW - Woordenschat N1 - At head of title: Lancelot Hogben, editor; "Further reading" at end of most of the chapters; The story of the alphabet -- Accidence - the table manners of language -- Syntax - the traffic rules of language -- The classification of languages -- How to learn the basic word list -- Our teutonic relatives - a bird's-eye view of teutonic grammar -- The latin legacy -- Modern descendants of latin -- The diseases of language -- Pioneers of language planning -- Language planning for a new order; Also issued online UR - http://www.archive.org/details/loomoflanguage00bodm UR - http://www.openlibrary.org/books/OL13578105M ER -