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The Genesis of Grammar - A Reconstruction (Hardcover)
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The Genesis of Grammar - A Reconstruction (Hardcover)
Series: Studies in the Evolution of Language, 9
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This book reconstructs what the earliest grammars might have been
and shows how they could have led to the languages of modern
humankind.
Like other biological phenomena, language cannot be fully
understood without reference to its evolution, whether proven or
hypothesized," wrote Talmy Givon in 2002. As the languages spoken
8,000 years ago were typologically much the same as they are today
and as no direct evidence exists for languages before then,
evolutionary linguists are at a disadvantage compared to their
counterparts in biology. Bernd Heine and Tania Kuteva seek to
overcome this obstacle by combining grammaticalization theory, one
of the main methods of historical linguistics, with work in animal
communication and human evolution. The questions they address
include: do the modern languages derive from one ancestral language
or from more than one? What was the structure of language like when
it first evolved? And how did the properties associated with modern
human languages arise, in particular syntax and the recursive use
of language structures? The authors proceed on the assumption that
if language evolution is the result of language change then the
reconstruction of the former can be explored by deploying the
processes involved in the latter. Their measured arguments and
crystal-clear exposition will appeal to all those interested in the
evolution of language, from advanced undergraduates to linguists,
cognitive scientists, human biologists, and archaeologists.
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