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Author: Lord James Burnett Monboddo
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Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 714
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Author: Lord James Burnett Monboddo
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Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 714
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Author: Lord James Burnett Monboddo
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Category : Language and languages
Languages : en
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Author: James Burnett
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ISBN: 9780404082628
Category : Language and languages
Languages : en
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Author: Burnett
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Languages : en
Pages : 536
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Author: James Burnett
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Languages : en
Pages : 710
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Author: Burnett
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Languages : en
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Author: Otto Jespersen
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Category : Language and languages
Languages : en
Pages : 462
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Author: Morris Swadesh
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351478028
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 405
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Morris Swadesh, one of this century's foremost scientific investigators of language, dedicated much of his life to the study of the origin and evolution of language. This volume, left nearly completed at his death and edited posthumously by Joel F. Sherzer, is his last major study of this difficult subject.Swadesh discusses the simple qualities of human speech also present in animal language, and establishes distinctively human techniques of expression by comparing the common features that are found in modern and ancient languages. He treats the diversification of language not only by isolating root words in different languages, but also by dealing with sound systems, with forms of composition, and with sentence structure. In so doing, he demonstrates the evidence for the expansion of all language from a single central area. Swadesh supports his hypothesis by ""exhibits"" that conveniently present the evidence in tabular form. Further clarity is provided by the use of a suggestive practical phonetic system, intelligible to the student as well as to the professional.The book also contains an Appendix, in which the distinguished ethnographer of language, Dell Hymes, gives a valuable account of the prewar linguistic tradition within which Swadesh did some of his most important work.
Author: Robert Mailhammer
Publisher: Museum Tusculanum Press
ISBN: 8763542099
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 362
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Most of us know of the Indo-European roots of European languages, but how did this precursor language take hold and what did Europe look like before it did so? This book explores the continent before the spread of the Indo-Europeans, examines its indigenous population and the contacts it had with Indo-European and Uralic immigrants, and, ultimately, asks how these origins led to the development of that crucial singularity for Europe’s languages. Drawing on archaeology, religious studies, and palaeography, the contributors offer a detailed and comprehensive picture of Europe’s linguistic and, in turn, cultural prehistory.
Author: Sverker Johansson
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN: 9027294607
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 359
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Sverker Johansson has written an unusual book on language origins, with its emphasis on empirical evidence rather than theory-building. This is a book for the student or researcher who prefers solid data and well-supported conclusions, over speculative scenarios. Much that has been written on the origins of language is characterized by hypothesizing largely unconstrained by evidence. But empirical data do exist, and the purpose of this book is to integrate and review the available evidence from all relevant disciplines, not only linguistics but also, e.g., neurology, primatology, paleoanthropology, and evolutionary biology. The evidence is then used to constrain the multitude of scenarios for language origins, demonstrating that many popular hypotheses are untenable. Among the issues covered: (1) Human evolutionary history, (2) Anatomical prerequisites for language, (3) Animal communication and ape "language", (4) Mind and language, (5) The role of gesture, (6) Innateness, (7) Selective advantage of language, (8) Proto-language.
