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The genesis of grammar : a reconstruction /

This book reconstructs what the earliest grammars might have been and shows how they could have led to the languages of modern humankind. It considers whether these languages derive from a single ancestral language; what the structure of language was when it first evolved; and how the properties ass...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Heine, Bernd, 1939-
Otros Autores: Kuteva, Tania, 1958-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007.
Colección:Studies in the evolution of language ; 9.
Oxford linguistics.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:This book reconstructs what the earliest grammars might have been and shows how they could have led to the languages of modern humankind. It considers whether these languages derive from a single ancestral language; what the structure of language was when it first evolved; and how the properties associated with modern human languages first arose. - ;"This book reconstructs what the earliest grammars might have been and shows how they could have led to the languages of modern humankind. "Like other biological phenomena, language cannot be fully understood without reference to its evol.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (xvi, 418 pages) : illustrations.
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references (pages 357-399) and index.
ISBN:0191527831
9780191527838
9786611150112
6611150110
1281150118
9781281150110
1435614038
9781435614031