Language Origins : Perspectives on Evolution

Maggie Tallerman

ISBN 10: 0199279039 / ISBN 13: 9780199279036

Published by OUP Oxford, 2005

nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - This book addresses central questions in the evolution of language: where it came from; how and why it evolved; how it came to be culturally transmitted; and how languages diversified. It does so from the perspective of the latest work in linguistics, neuroscience, psychology, and computer science, and deploys the latest methods and theories to probe into the origins and subsequent development of the only species that has languages. Seller Inventory # 9780199279036

Synopsis:

This book addresses central questions in the evolution of language: where it came from; how and why it evolved; how it came to be culturally transmitted; and how languages diversified. It does so from the perspective of the latest work in linguistics, neuroscience, psychology, and computer science, and deploys the latest methods and theories to probe into the origins and subsequent development of the only species that has languages.

About the Author: Maggie Tallerman is Reader in Linguistics at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne. She has spent her professional life in North East England, having previously taught for 21 years at the University of Durham. Her research interests centre on the origins and evolution of syntax and morphology; modern Brythonic Celtic syntax and morphology; and language typology. She is the author of Understanding Syntax (1998; second edition 2005), and has published widely on the morphosyntax of modern Welsh and Breton, as well as on language evolution. She was review editor for the Journal of Linguistics from 1994 to 2005.

Bibliographic Details

Title: Language Origins : Perspectives on Evolution
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Publication Date: 2005
Binding: Buch
Condition: Neu