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The genesis of grammar : a reconstruction / Bernd Heine and Tania Kuteva.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Heine, Bernd, 1939- author.
- Kuteva, Tania, 1958- author.
- Series:
- Studies in the evolution of language ; 9.
- Oxford scholarship online.
- Studies in the evolution of language ; 9
- Oxford scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Language and languages--Origin.
- Language and languages.
- Grammar, Comparative and general.
- Grammar, Comparative and general--Grammaticalization.
- Animal communication.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (437 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2023.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Heine and Kuteva reconstruct what the earliest grammars might have been and show how they could have led to modern languages. They consider 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.
- Contents:
- Contents; Preface; List of abbreviations; 1 Introduction; 2 An outline of grammatical evolution; 3 Some cognitive abilities of animals; 4 On pidgins and other restricted linguistic systems; 5 Clause subordination; 6 On the rise of recursion; 7 Early language; References; Index
- Notes:
- Formerly CIP.
- Previously issued in print: 2007.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.
- ISBN:
- 1-383-03616-0
- 9786611150112
- 1-281-15011-8
- 0-19-152783-1
- 1-4356-1403-8
- OCLC:
- 476245503
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