The genesis of grammar : a reconstruction /

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Author / Creator:Heine, Bernd, 1939-
Imprint:Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007.
Description:1 online resource (xvi, 418 pages) : illustrations.
Language:English
Series:Studies in the evolution of language ; 9
Oxford linguistics
Studies in the evolution of language ; 9.
Oxford linguistics.
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11178509
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Other authors / contributors:Kuteva, Tania, 1958-
ISBN:0191527831
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Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 357-399) and index.
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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.
Other form:Print version: Heine, Bernd, 1939- Genesis of grammar. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007
Standard no.:9786611150112