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BOOK
Title The unfolding of language : an evolutionary tour of mankind's greatest invention / Guy Deutscher
Imprint New York, N.Y. : Picador, ©2005
New York, N.Y. : Picador, ©2005

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Descript 358 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Note Includes bibliographical references (pages 329-340) and index
A castle in the air -- Perpetual motion -- The forces of destruction -- A reef of dead metaphors -- The forces of creation -- Craving for order -- The unfolding of language
Subject Language and languages -- Origin
Language and languages -- Philosophy
Linguistic change
Semantics, Comparative
Metaphor
Order (Grammar)
Språk
Classmark 401
ISBN/ISSN 9780805080124
0805080120
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