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Language Origins: Perspectives on Evolution
Author(s): Maggie Tallerman
- Publisher: Oxford University Press, U.S.A.
- Publication Date: 6 Jan. 2005
- Edition: Illustrated
- Language: English
- Print length: 448 pages
- ISBN-10: 0199279047
- ISBN-13: 9780199279043
Book Description
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 lateste work in linguistics, neuroscience, psychology, and computer science, and deploys the latest methods and theories toe probe into the origins and subsequent development of thee only species that has languages.
Editorial Reviews
Review
...will interest a wide range of linguists, cognitive scientists, biologists, psychologists, neuroscientists, and experts in artificial intelligence, as well as those fascinated by issues, puzzles, and problems raised by the evolution of language. ― Folia Linguistica
...obligatory reading... ―
Derek Bickerton, Journal of Linguistics, vol. 43Given the range of this volume, the scope of its potential readership, and the cross-disciplinary nature of the contributions, there are significant editorial challenges to which Maggie Tallerman has risen...this is a timely volume which lives up to its aim of informing on the latest developments in what is considered to be a thriving cross-disciplinary field. ―
Artificial Intelligence ReviewAbout the Author
Maggie Tallerman is Reader in Linguistics at Newcastle University. 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.
