He devoted much of his time and publishing activities to the way languages change as well as the relationship between language and society.[1]
He is the author of the international bestsellers Speak: A Short History of Languages and A Natural History of Latin.
Works
English
Speak: A Short History of Languages, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002.
ISBN978-0-19-829978-3
A Natural History of Latin, Oxford: Oxford University Press 2004.
ISBN978-0-19-926309-7
The History of Languages: An Introduction, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012.
ISBN978-0-19-960428-9
Swedish
Latin Kulturen, historien, språket, Wahlström & Widstrand, 2002
ISBN91-46-18335-3
Språken och historien (transl. language and history), Stockholm: Norstedts, 2008.
ISBN978-91-7227-587-4
Språkens historia. En upptäcktsresa i tid och rum (transl. Language's history, a discovery journey across time and space), Stockholm: Norstedts, 2010.
ISBN978-91-1-303308-2