The origins of grammar : an anthropological perspective /
The book examines the originsof language and grammar and also looks at the nature of being human. As a species, we have a long history of trying to find aspects of ourselves that are exclusively human. Some of the features of humanity thought to be solely the realm of the spiritual - for example cog...
| Основен автор: | Edwardes, Martin. |
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| Формат: | Електронна книга |
| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
London ; New York :
Continuum,
℗♭2010.
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| Подобни документи: |
Print version::
Origins of grammar. |
Съдържание:
- Contents; Acknowledgements; 1 Why All the Fuss?; 2 The Story So Far; 3 The Heavy Hand of Generative Linguistics; 4 Other Views on Language; 5 It's All in the Mind; 6 Being Human; 7 The Weirdness of Self; 8 How Did We Come to Be Human?; 9 How Did We Come to Use Grammar?; 10 What Nonhumans Tell Us about Being Human; 11 What Young Humans Tell Us about Being Human; 12 What Time Tells Us about Being Human; 13 The Evolution of Grammar; References; Index.