The Unfolding of Language

Disclaimer: I only read 30% of this book, but found I was completely incapable of keeping going. It's a light and fluffy pop-sci approach to the history of language, which panders easy realizations (of course language is evolving – it doesn't take three chapters to grab this concept) and straw-mans just-so theories in an attempt to sound more convincing (I really, really hope they are straw-men). In the third of the book I read, I did not find a single takeaway. If you're looking for an interesting book on language, look elsewhere.