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

By Guy Deutscher
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By Guy Deutscher
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Susanne K. Langer Award Winner
Named One of A.S. Byatt’s Favorite Books of the Year in The Guardian

“A lively and thought-provoking exploration of why language change appears to be haphazard yet is fundamentally orderly. Exciting, witty, and a masterpiece of contemporary scholarship.”—Elizabeth Closs Traugott, Professor Emeritus of Linguistics and English, Stanford University

Blending the spirit of Eats, Shoots & Leaves with the science of The Language Instinct, an original inquiry into the de...

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