Nick Huntington-Klein's Reviews > The Unfolding of Language: An Evolutionary Tour of Mankind's Greatest Invention

A fascinating look at the ideas of historical linguistics, and the idea that basic principles of gradual change can lead to the syntactic complexity (and simplicity... and complexity again... and simplicity again...) of modern language. Very accessible.

If the book suffers at all it's from a too-high dose of repetition. I also wish there was a bit more sense of which of the arguments in the book were well-accepted and supported theories and which were closer to speculation, since both are clearly present in the book. He does have a big disclaimer before a speculation chapter, but I wonder about the rest.