Linguistic Detectives. Fascinating Stories from the Life of Words Two Books in One Volume

Linguistic Detectives. Fascinating Stories from the Life of Words Two Books in One Volume

Linguistic detectives are a guide to the amazing and mysterious world of our great language. Why is something or someone called this way and not that? Where was a particular word born? Has it always been spelled the way it... is now? In his book, the author not only provides detailed answers to the most unexpected questions in the field of linguistics but also tells engagingly about the meaning, structure, and origin of words, phrases, and difficult lines from works of Russian classics. Stories about words can be read in any order that is convenient for you! The book includes: - words and verbal communities; - phraseologisms; - artistic text; - analysis of a word by its composition; - what is inside a word; - language noises and interference; - tasks and tests.

Author: Николай Шанский

Printhouse: Eksmo

Series: Russian Without Mistakes

Age restrictions: 12+

Year of publication: 2022

ISBN: 9785041639358

Number of pages: 576

Size: 244х170х30 mm

Cover type: hard

Weight: 842 g

ID: 921541

Linguistic detectives are a guide to the amazing and mysterious world of our great language. Why is something or someone called this way and not that? Where was a particular word born? Has it always been spelled the way it is now? In his book, the author not only provides detailed answers to the most unexpected questions in the field of linguistics but also tells engagingly about the meaning, structure, and origin of words, phrases, and difficult lines from works of Russian classics. Stories about words can be read in any order that is convenient for you! The book includes: - words and verbal communities; - phraseologisms; - artistic text; - analysis of a word by its composition; - what is inside a word; - language noises and interference; - tasks and tests.

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