Here I present: Guy Deutscher, “THE UNFOLDING OF LANGUAGE: An Evolutionary Tour of Mankind’s Greatest Invention“, 2005.
INTRODUCTION.
Guy Deutscher, “The Unfolding of Language“, 2005 consists of an “introductory” & “epilogue” chapters in addition to the core seven (7) chapters. The “table of contents” of the book is given BELOW.
TABLE OF CONTENTS.
Introduction.
1. A Castle in the Air.
2 Perpetual Motion.
3 The Forces of Destruction.
4 A Reef of Dead Metaphors.
5 The Forces of Creation.
6 Craving for Order.
7 The Unfolding of Language.
Epilogue.
COMMENTS.
Chapter #3. “The Forces of Destruction” is one that I thought deserved note.
On page 102 is a discussion of Sir William Jones (1746-1794). Sir William Jones in February 1786, stated that Sanskrit, Latin & Greek … “sprung from some common source“. This observation in 1786 is an essential discovery in language evolution. Sir William Jones is historically ahead of biological evolutionists of Alfred Russel Wallace & Charles Darwin of 1859.
