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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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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2007.
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| Series: | Studies in the evolution of language ;
9. Oxford linguistics. |
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- 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.