The Evolutionary Emergence of Language: Evidence and Inference

Botha, Rudolf, and Martin Everaert, editors

ISBN 10: 0199654859 / ISBN 13: 9780199654857

Published by Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2013

About this Item

An ex-library copy in original paper covers, with the usual ex-libris markings (but no card pocket). The binding is sound, the text is clean/unmarked, and there is little cover wear.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Evolutionary Emergence of Language: Evidence and Inference
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, Oxford
• Publication Date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0199654859
• ISBN 13: 9780199654857
• Binding: Trade Paperback
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket
• Book Type: Book

About this title

Synopsis

The book presents new and stimulating approaches to the study of language evolution and considers their implications for future research. Leading scholars from linguistics, primatology, anthroplogy, and cognitive science consider how language evolution can be understood by means of inference from the study of linked or analogous phenomena in language, animal behaviour, genetics, neurology, culture, and biology. In their introduction the editors show how these approaches can be interrelated and deployed together through their use of comparable forms of inference and the similar conditions they place on the use of evidence.

The Evolutionary Emergence of Language will interest everyone concerned with this intriguing and important subject, including those in linguistics, biology, anthropology, archaeology, neurology, and cognitive science.

About the Author

Rudolf Botha is Professor of General Linguistics at the University of Stellenbosch, and a Fellow of the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study. His books include Form and Meaning in Word Formation: A Study of Afrikaans Reduplication (CUP 1988), Unravelling the Evolution of Language (Elsevier 2003) and, co-edited with C. Knight, The Cradle of Language and The Prehistory of Language (both OUP 2009).

Martin Everaert is Professor of Linguistics and Director of the Institute of Linguistics at the University of Utrecht. His research interests include syntactic theory and the lexicon-syntax interface and his books The Syntax of Reflexivization, (Dordrecht: Foris 1986) and, as co-editor, The Unaccusativity Puzzle (OUP 2004), The Blackwell Companion to Syntax (2007), and The Theta Sytsem (OUP 2012).