The Evolutionary Emergence of Language: Evidence and Inference
Rudolf Botha and Martin Everaert
Abstract
The book presents new and stimulating approaches to the study of language evolution and considers their implications for future research. Leading scholars from linguistics, primatology, anthropology, and cognitive science consider how language evolution can be understood by means of inference from the study of linked or analogous phenomena in language, animal behaviour, genetics, neurology, culture, and biology. The introduction shows how these approaches can be interrelated and deployed together through their use of comparable forms of inference and the similar conditions they place on the us ... More
The book presents new and stimulating approaches to the study of language evolution and considers their implications for future research. Leading scholars from linguistics, primatology, anthropology, and cognitive science consider how language evolution can be understood by means of inference from the study of linked or analogous phenomena in language, animal behaviour, genetics, neurology, culture, and biology. The introduction shows how these approaches can be interrelated and deployed together through their use of comparable forms of inference and the similar conditions they place on the use of evidence.
Keywords:
language evolution,
primatology,
anthropology,
animal behaviour,
genetics,
neurology,
culture,
biology
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2013 |
Print ISBN-13: 9780199654840 |
| Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: September 2013 |
DOI:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199654840.001.0001 |
Authors
Affiliations are at time of print publication.
Rudolf Botha, editor
Professor of General Linguistics at the University of Stellenbosch, and a Fellow of the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study.
Martin Everaert, editor
Professor of Linguistics and Director of the Institute of Linguistics at the University of Utrecht
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