The search for the perfect language
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The search for the perfect language
Fontana Press, 1997
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Translated from the Italian
Originally published: Oxford: Blackwell, 1995
Includes bibliographical references (p. [355]-371) and index
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From the early Dark Ages to the Renaissance it was widely believed that the language spoken in the Garden of Eden was a perfect language, expressing all possible things, and that all current languages were its decadent descendants. This is an investigation into the history of this idea.
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