The origins of grammar /
This is the second of the two closely linked but self-contained volumes that comprise James Hurford's acclaimed exploration of the biological evolution of language. In the first book he looked at the evolutionary origins of meaning, ending as our distant ancestors were about to step over the br...
Cote: | Libro Electrónico |
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Format: | Électronique eBook |
Langue: | Inglés |
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Oxford ; New York, NY :
Oxford University Press,
©2012.
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Collection: | Hurford, James R. Language in the light of evolution ;
2. Studies in the evolution of language. |
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Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
Table des matières:
- Part I. Pre-Grammar: 1. Animal syntax? implications for language as behaviour; 2. First shared lexicon
- Part II. What Evolved: 3. Syntax in the light of evolution; 4. What evolved: language learning capacity; 5. What evolved : languages
- Part III. What Happened: 6. The pre-existing platform; 7. Gene-language coevolution; 8. One word, two words,
- ; 9. Grammaticalization.