Evolutionary Syntax (Oxford Studies in the Evolution of Language) - Softcover

Progovac, Ljiljana

Softcover

ISBN 10: 019873655X ISBN 13: 9780198736554

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 2015

Synopsis

Ljiljana Progovac proposes a gradualist, adaptationist approach to the evolution of syntax, subject to natural selection. It provides a specific framework for studying the evolution of syntax, combining the fields of evolutionary biology, theoretical syntax, typology, neuroscience, and genetics.

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Ljiljana Progovac, Professor and Director of the Linguistics Program, Wayne State University

Ljiljana Progovac is Professor of Linguistics and Director of the Linguistics Program at Wayne State University in Detroit. She received her undergraduate degree in English from the University of Novi Sad, Serbia, and her Ph.D. degree in linguistics from the University of Southern California, Los Angeles. Her research interests include syntax, Slavic syntax, and the evolution of syntax. She is the author of Negative and Positive Polarity (CUP, 1994) and A Syntax of Serbian (Slavica, 2005), as well as multiple journal articles and conference papers on language evolution, and is co-editor of The Syntax of Nonsententials (Benjamins, 2006).

Edition details

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 019873655X
• ISBN 13: 9780198736554
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 280