The origins of grammar

By:

Hurford, James R

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Language in the light of evolution 2Publication details: 2012 Oxford University Press OxfordDescription: xiii, 791 pISBN:

9780199207879

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DDC classification:

401 H8O7

Summary: The book is divided into three parts. In the first the author surveys the syntactic structures evident in the communicative behaviour of animals, such as birds and whales, and discusses how vocabularies of learned symbols could have evolved and the effects this had on human thought. In the second he considers how far the evolution of grammar depended on biological or cultural factors. In the third and final part he describes the probable route by which the human language faculty and languages evolved from simple beginnings to their present complex state. (http://ukcatalogue.oup.com/product/9780199207879.do#.T8RFM1IUmnA)

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The book is divided into three parts. In the first the author surveys the syntactic structures evident in the communicative behaviour of animals, such as birds and whales, and discusses how vocabularies of learned symbols could have evolved and the effects this had on human thought. In the second he considers how far the evolution of grammar depended on biological or cultural factors. In the third and final part he describes the probable route by which the human language faculty and languages evolved from simple beginnings to their present complex state. (http://ukcatalogue.oup.com/product/9780199207879.do#.T8RFM1IUmnA)

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