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Author: Botha, Rudolf
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by Rudolf Botha (Editor); Martin Everaert (Editor)

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The book presents new and stimulating approaches to the study of language evolution and considers their implications for future research. Leading scholars from linguistics, primatology, anthroplogy, and cognitive science consider how language evolution can be understood by means of inference from the study of linked or analogous phenomena in language, animal behaviour, genetics, neurology, culture, and biology. In their introduction the editors show how these approaches can be interrelated and deployed together through their use of comparable forms of inference and the similar conditions they place on the use of evidence.

The Evolutionary Emergence of Language will interest everyone concerned with this intriguing and important subject, including those in linguistics, biology, anthropology, archaeology, neurology, and cognitive science.

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Title Evolutionary Emergence of Language: Evidence and Inference
Author Rudolf Botha (Editor); Martin Everaert (Editor)
Binding Hardcover
Edition First edition
Pages 356
Volumes 1
Language ENG
Publisher Oxford University Press, USA
Date 2013-09-15
Illustrated Yes
Features Bibliography, Dust Cover, Illustrated, Index, Table of Contents
ISBN 9780199654840 / 0199654840
Weight 1.54 lbs (0.70 kg)
Dimensions 9.2 x 6.2 x 1.2 in (23.37 x 15.75 x 3.05 cm)
Library of Congress subjects Language and languages - Origin, Historical linguistics
Dewey Decimal Code 417.7

About the author

Rudolf Botha is Professor of General Linguistics at the University of Stellenbosch, and a Fellow of the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study. His books include Form and Meaning in Word Formation: A Study of Afrikaans Reduplication (CUP 1988), Unravelling the Evolution of Language (Elsevier 2003) and, co-edited with C. Knight, The Cradle of Language and The Prehistory of Language (both OUP 2009).

Martin Everaert is Professor of Linguistics and Director of the Institute of Linguistics at the University of Utrecht. His research interests include syntactic theory and the lexicon-syntax interface and his books The Syntax of Reflexivization, (Dordrecht: Foris 1986) and, as co-editor, The Unaccusativity Puzzle (OUP 2004), The Blackwell Companion to Syntax (2007), and The Theta Sytsem (OUP 2012).