David Crystal, Making a Point: The pernickety story of English punctuation
David Crystal, a renowned linguist and the author of over 700 books and articles, published Making a Point: The pernickety story of English punctuation in 2015. After diverse Stories of English (2004, 2011), he chose to relate the story of English punctuation, and to answer the following questions,...
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| Online toegang: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Samenvatting: | David Crystal, a renowned linguist and the author of over 700 books and articles, published Making a Point: The pernickety story of English punctuation in 2015. After diverse Stories of English (2004, 2011), he chose to relate the story of English punctuation, and to answer the following questions, which he raises in the introduction:Who were the people who introduced punctuation in the English language? Why did they do it? How did their invention evolve over the centuries? What is happening... |
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