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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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2007.
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| Colección: | Studies in the evolution of language ;
9. Oxford linguistics. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| 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. |
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| 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 |