Blending the spirit of Bill Bryson’s Mother Tongue with the science of Steven Pinker’s The Language Instinct, The Unfolding of Language is a remarkably original inquiry into the development of that most essential — and mysterious — of human creations: language.
‘Language is mankind’s greatest invention — except of course, that it was never invented.
’ So begins this enthralling investigation into the evolution of language.
Given that no-one sits down to design languages, how did there come to b.
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Arrow Unfolding of language, paperback/guy deutscher
