Ink, as a tool for writing, has had a profound and ever deepening influence on our perception of the nature of language. It has enabled us to make stills of fractional moments in its evolution and given an artificial solidity to something that has only a very...
In the late stone age, about seven or eight millennia ago, the speakers of the cluster of related dialects that later developed into Sanskrit, Greek, Latin and most of the modern European languages, lived in a habitat where man, today the most influential and...
