AuthorHurford, James R
TitleThe origins of grammar / James R. Hurford
Imprint Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, c2012
Descript xiii, 791 p. : ill. ; 26 cm

CONTENT

Part I. Pre-Grammar: 1. Animal syntax? implications for language as behaviour; 2. First shared lexicon -- Part II. What Evolved: 3. Syntax in the light of evolution; 4. What evolved: language learning capacity; 5. What evolved : languages -- Part III. What Happened: 6. The pre-existing platform; 7. Gene-language coevolution; 8. One word, two words, . . .; 9. Grammaticalization


SUBJECT

  1. Language and languages -- Origin
  2. Grammar
  3. Comparative and general -- History
  4. Historical linguistics

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Language Institute Library415.09 H963O CHECK SHELVES