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Review title: A trivial concept stretched to fill a book
Product review: Although intriguing in its premise, Atoms of Language is really about finding a small set of distinguishing characteristics for languages. These characteristics are given the generic term of "parameters". The author describes these parameters in an excruciatingly slow process. One of them, for example, is whether a tensed sentence requires a subject or not. Far from developing a "periodic chart of languages",it is more like playing a game of twenty questions. If this book describes the latest development of linguistics, then the field has devolved into trivialities.
