The Unfolding of Language: An Evolutionary Tour of Mankind's Greatest Invention (PDF)

In this book, Deutscher attempts to present an explanation for the origin of some of the features found in today's language structures. He does not discuss the very beginning of language itself, but starts from the point where words already existed but most grammatical structure had not yet evolved.

The purpose of the book is to explain how and why language changes over time. For example, how we got from very simple grunts to the complex language structures like Latin, why the English spoken today is so different from the English spoken just a few centuries ago, how various languages of the world related to each other, just to name a few aspects covered in this book.

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