Language Origins: Perspectives on Evolution (Studies in the Evolution of Language) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0199279047 ISBN 13: 9780199279043

Publisher: Oxford University Press, U.S.A., 2005

Synopsis

This book addresses central questions in the evolution of language: where it came from; how and why it evolved; how it came to be culturally transmitted; and how languages diversified. It does so from the perspective of the lateste work in linguistics, neuroscience, psychology, and computer science, and deploys the latest methods and theories toe probe into the origins and subsequent development of thee only species that has languages.

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About the Author

Maggie Tallerman is Reader in Linguistics at Newcastle University. She has spent her professional life in North East England, having previously taught for 21 years at the University of Durham. Her research interests centre on the origins and evolution of syntax and morphology; modern Brythonic Celtic syntax and morphology; and language typology. She is the author of Understanding Syntax (1998; second edition 2005), and has published widely on the morphosyntax of modern Welsh and Breton, as well as on language evolution. She was review editor for the Journal of Linguistics from 1994 to 2005.

Edition details

• Publisher: Oxford University Press, U.S.A.
• Publication date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0199279047
• ISBN 13: 9780199279043
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 448
• Editor: Tallerman Maggie