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Other authors / contributors: | Kuteva, Tania, 1958-
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ISBN: | 0191527831 9780191527838 9786611150112 6611150110 0199227764 0199227772 9780199227778 9780199227761 1281150118 9781281150110 1435614038 9781435614031
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Digital file characteristics: | data file
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Notes: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 357-399) and index. Restrictions unspecified Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 English. digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve Print version record.
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Summary: | This book reconstructs what the earliest grammars might have been and shows how they could have led to the languages of modern humankind. It considers 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. - ;"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 evol.
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Other form: | Print version: Heine, Bernd, 1939- Genesis of grammar. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007
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Standard no.: | 9786611150112
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