The Unfolding of Language: An Evolutionary Tour of Mankind's Greatest Invention Deutscher GuyPaperback
The Unfolding of Language: An Evolutionary Tour of Mankind's Greatest Invention Deutscher GuyPaperback Blending the spirit of Eats, Shoots & Leaves with the science of The Language Instinct, an…
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The Unfolding of Language: An Evolutionary Tour of Mankind's Greatest Invention Deutscher GuyPaperback
Blending the spirit of Eats, Shoots & Leaves with the science of The Language Instinct, an original inquiry into the development of that most essential-and mysterious-of human creations: LanguageLanguage is mankind's greatest invention-except, of course, that it was never invented. If we started off with rudimentary utterances on the level of man throw spear, how did we end up with sophisticated grammars, enormous vocabularies, and intricately nuanced degrees of meaning?Drawing on recent groundbreaking discoveries in modern linguistics, Deutscher exposes the elusive forces of creation at work in human communication, giving us fresh insight into how language emerges, evolves, and decays. So begins linguist Guy Deutscher's enthralling investigation into the genesis and evolution of language.
He traces the evolution of linguistic complexity from an early
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