Re: Conlang book report: The Unfolding of Language

Amanda Babcock Furrow wrote:
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I got The Unfolding of Language (Guy Deutscher, 2005, Metropolitan
Books, NY) for Christmas
[...]
It gave me a feeling that I should be doing a great deal more to provide
my conlangs with affixes that have a history - even though I do not
usually conlang diachronically.
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So did I, and it made me feel the same way. I agree with Amanda's review
in general, except that I  wasn't irritated by the 'hammering home', and
I was disappointed rather than embarrassed by the mammoth story - I was
expecting the author to address questions which he claims are obviously
unanswerable (like how proto-language developed from non-language).

Definitely worth reading.

Jonathan.