Prehistory of Language

Informationen zum Autor Rudolf Botha is Professor of General Linguistics at the University of Stellenbosch, and a Fellow of the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study. His books include Form and Meaning in Word Formation: A Study of Afrikaans Reduplication (CUP 1988) and Unravelling the Evolution of Language (Elsevier 2003). Chris Knight is Professor of Anthropology at the University of East London. His publicatons include Blood Relations: Menstruation and the Origins of Culture (Yale UP 1995). Klappentext Prominent linguists, cognitive scientists, archaeologists, primatologists, anthropologists, and natural scientists examine issues and advances in understanding language evolution, ranging from the co-evolution of language and music to the evolutionary biology of language. An important and stylish contribution to a fascinating area of research. Zusammenfassung Prominent linguists, cognitive scientists, archaeologists, primatologists, anthropologists, and natural scientists examine issues and advances in understanding language evolution, ranging from the co-evolution of language and music to the evolutionary biology of language. An important and stylish contribution to a fascinating area of research.

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• Authors: Rudolf Botha, Rudolf P. Knight Botha
• Assisted by: Rudolf Botha (Editor), Rudolf P. Botha (Editor), Chris Knight (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 13.01.2009
• EAN: 9780199545889
• ISBN: 978-0-19-954588-9
• No. of pages: 368
• Series: Studies in the Evolution of Language; Studies in the Evolution of La; Studies in the Evolution of Language; Studies in the Evolution of La; Oxford Studies in the Evolutio
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics