books.google.com - It is tempting to take the tremendous rate of contemporary linguistic change for granted. What is required, in fact, is a radical reinterpretation of what language is. Steven Roger Fischer begins his book with an examination of the modes of communication used by dolphins, birds and primates as the first...http://books.google.com/books/about/A_history_of_language.html?id=5i1Ql7QQy0kC&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareA history of language
