The Genesis of Grammar: A Reconstruction

by Tania Kuteva and Bernd Heine

Book Overview

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 evolution, whether proven or hypothesized," wrote Talmy Giv n in 2002. As the languages spoken 8,000 years ago were typologically much the same as they are today and as no direct evidence exists for languages before...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199227764
• ISBN13: 9780199227761
• Release Date: November 2007
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 438 Pages
• Weight: 1.73 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.5" x 9.3"