by Louis-Jean Calvet · Gredos · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788424916909
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«Historias de palabras: etimologías europeas» is the linguistics essay by Louis-Jean Calvet, published by Gredos in paperback (144 pages, in Spanish).
Louis-Jean Calvet analyzes the history of European words using the comparative grammar of Indo-European languages. The book explains the kinship between words from different languages and shows how the evolution of languages has left traces in the meaning and form of words.
This work is the Spanish version of 'Histoires de mots', translated by Soledad García Mouton, and was published in 1996.
It is of interest to linguistics students and readers interested in etymology and the history of European languages.
Louis-Jean Calvet was a French linguist.
