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Of The Origin And Progress Of Language by James Burnett Monboddo. This late-18th-century treatise investigates how human language begins and evolves in tandem with social life. It argues that language arises from acquired habit, imitation, and social needs rather than innately predetermined endowments. The work outlines two principal pathways to language: refining natural cries through tone and articulation, and imitating articulate animal sounds to yield words and ultimately grammar. Drawing on a broad range of cross-cultural evidence—from Hurons and Algonkins in the Americas to Greenlanders, Laplanders, Tahitians, and Patagonia communities—the author traces a cognitive and morphological progression from concrete expressions to abstract ideas, and from simple words to inflected forms, derivation, composition, and syntax. He discusses how conquest, contact, and diffusion shape linguistic change, and how writing preserves languages beyond spoken life. The study places language origins within an Aristotelian framework of mind, habit, and social organization, contrasting it withLockeian and other modern theories and underscoring language as a durable product of human community and culture.
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