The second in James Hurford's acclaimed two-volume exploration of the biological evolution of language explores the evolutionary and cultural preconditions and consequences of humanity's great leap into language.
The second in James Hurford's acclaimed two-volume exploration of the biological evolution of language explores the evolutionary and cultural preconditions and consequences of humanity's great leap into language.
James R. Hurford is Emeritus Professor of General Linguistics, University of Edinburgh. He is co-editor, with Kathleen Gibson, of OUP's Studies in Language Evolution, co-founder, with Simon Kirby, of the Language Evolution and Computation Research Unit at the University of Edinburgh, and co-founder, with Chris Knight, of the EVOLANG series of international conferences on the evolution of language. His books include The Linguistic Theory of Numerals (CUP, 1975), Language and Number: The Emergence of a Cognitive System (Blackwell, 1987), Grammar: A Student's Guide (CUP 1994), and The Origins of Meaning (OUP 2007).
Inhaltsangabe
* Part I: Pre-Grammar * Introduction to Part I: Twin Evolutionary patterns - Animal Song and Human Symbols * 1: Animal Syntax? Implications for Language as Behaviour * 2: First Shared Lexicon * Part II: What Evolved * Introduction to Part II: Some Linguistics - How to Study Syntax and What Evolved * 3: Syntax in the Light of Evolution * 4: What Evolved: Language Learning Capacity * 5: What Evolved: Languages * Part III: What Happened * Introduction to Part III: What Happened - The Evolution of Syntax * 6: The Pre-existing Platform * 7: Gene-Language Coevolution * 8: One Word, Two Words * 9: Grammaticalization * Sendoff * References * Index
* Part I: Pre-Grammar * Introduction to Part I: Twin Evolutionary patterns - Animal Song and Human Symbols * 1: Animal Syntax? Implications for Language as Behaviour * 2: First Shared Lexicon * Part II: What Evolved * Introduction to Part II: Some Linguistics - How to Study Syntax and What Evolved * 3: Syntax in the Light of Evolution * 4: What Evolved: Language Learning Capacity * 5: What Evolved: Languages * Part III: What Happened * Introduction to Part III: What Happened - The Evolution of Syntax * 6: The Pre-existing Platform * 7: Gene-Language Coevolution * 8: One Word, Two Words * 9: Grammaticalization * Sendoff * References * Index
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