Origins of Language
Language: en
Pages: 359
Authors: Sverker Johansson
Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines
Type: BOOK - Published: 2005-02-17 - Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing

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Sverker Johansson has written an unusual book on language origins, with its emphasis on empirical evidence rather than theory-building. This is a book for the s
On the Origin of Language
Language: en
Pages: 187
Authors: Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-04-26 - Publisher: University of Chicago Press

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This volume combines Rousseau's essay on the origin of diverse languages with Herder's essay on the genesis of the faculty of speech. Rousseau's essay is import
History of Language
Language: en
Pages: 244
Authors: Steven Roger Fischer
Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines
Type: BOOK - Published: 2004-10-03 - Publisher: Reaktion Books

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It is tempting to take the tremendous rate of contemporary linguistic change for granted. What is required, in fact, is a radical reinterpretation of what langu
How Language Began: The Story of Humanity's Greatest Invention
Language: en
Pages: 309
Authors: Daniel L. Everett
Categories: Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-11-07 - Publisher: Liveright Publishing

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A Buzzfeed Gift Guide Selection “Few books on the biological and cultural origin of humanity can be ranked as classics. I believe [this] will be one of them.�
The Origin of Language
Language: en
Pages: 0
Authors: Merritt Ruhlen
Categories: Foreign Language Study
Type: BOOK - Published: 2023 - Publisher: Harvard Oriental Series - Opera Minora

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What can the classification of languages tell us about human origins and human prehistory? This book presents a popular account of the origin of language. It is