UID:
edocfu_9959244094502883
Format:
1 online resource (437 p.)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
1-383-03616-0
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9786611150112
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1-281-15011-8
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0-19-152783-1
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1-4356-1403-8
Series Statement:
Studies in the evolution of language ; 9
Content:
Heine and Kuteva reconstruct what the earliest grammars might have been and show how they could have led to modern languages. They consider whether these languages derive from a single ancestral language, what the structure of language was when it first evolved and how the properties associated with modern human languages first arose.
Note:
Formerly CIP.
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Previously issued in print: 2007.
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Contents; Preface; List of abbreviations; 1 Introduction; 2 An outline of grammatical evolution; 3 Some cognitive abilities of animals; 4 On pidgins and other restricted linguistic systems; 5 Clause subordination; 6 On the rise of recursion; 7 Early language; References; Index
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-19-922777-2
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-19-922776-4
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1093/oso/9780199227761.001.0001
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