The unfolding of language : the evolution of mankind's greatest invention /
""Language is mankind's greatest invention - except of course, that it was never invented." So begins linguist Guy Deutscher's investigation into the evolution of language. No one believes that the Roman Senate sat down one day to design the complex system that is Latin gram...
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London :
Arrow,
2006, c2005.
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Table des matières:
- 1. A castle in the air
- 2. Perpetual motion
- 3. The forces of destruction
- 4. The reef of dead metaphors
- 5. The forces of creation
- 6. Craving for order
- 7. The unfolding of language
- App. A. Flipping categories
- App. B. Laryngeals again?
- App. C. The devil in the detail
- App. D. The cook's counterpoint
- App. E. The Turkish mirror.