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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
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Preface; List of abbreviations; 1 Introduction; 2 An outline of grammatical evolution; 3 Some cognitive abilities of animals; 4 On pidgins and other restricted linguistic systems; 5 Clause subordination; 6 On the rise of recursion; 7 Early language; References; Index.