Linguistic Evolution
Language: en
Pages: 220
Authors: M. L. Samuels
Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines
Type: BOOK - Published: 1975-01-23 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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Professor Samuels presents a comprehensive explanation of the reasons for linguistic change, applying his theory in particular to the history of English. He ass
Why Only Us
Language: en
Pages: 229
Authors: Robert C. Berwick
Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-05-12 - Publisher: MIT Press

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Berwick and Chomsky draw on recent developments in linguistic theory to offer an evolutionary account of language and humans' remarkable, species-specific abili
The Evolution of Language
Language: en
Pages: 625
Authors: W. Tecumseh Fitch
Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010-04-01 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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Language, more than anything else, is what makes us human. It appears that no communication system of equivalent power exists elsewhere in the animal kingdom. A
The Biology and Evolution of Language
Language: en
Pages: 398
Authors: Philip Lieberman
Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines
Type: BOOK - Published: 1984 - Publisher: Harvard University Press

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This book synthesizes much of the exciting recent research in the biology of language. Drawing on data from anatomy, neurophysiology, physiology, and behavioral
The Evolution of Language Out of Pre-language
Language: en
Pages: 410
Authors: Talmy Givón
Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines
Type: BOOK - Published: 2002-01-01 - Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing

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The contributors to this volume are linguists, psychologists, neuroscientists, primatologists, and anthropologists who share the assumption that language, just