The Genesis of Grammar: A Reconstruction
- ISBN-10
- 0199227764
- ISBN-13
- 9780199227761
- Category
- Language Arts & Disciplines
- Pages
- 418
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2007-10-04
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Authors
- Bernd Heine, Tania Kuteva, Professor of English Linguistics Tania Kuteva
Description
This book reconstructs what the earliest grammars might have been and shows how they could have led to the languages of modern humankind. It considers 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.
Get the book
Similar books
-
The Genesis of Syntactic Complexity: Diachrony, Ontogeny, Neuro-cognition, Evolution
By Talmy GivónThe book first describes grammar as an adaptive instrument of communication, assembled upon the pre-existing platform of pre-linguistic object- and-event cognition and mental representation.
-
The Genesis of Discourse Grammar: Universals and Substrata in Guyanese, Hawaii Creole, and Japanese
By Hirokuni MasudaHirokuni Masuda applies the modified Verse Analysis to the study of creole languages seeking evidence to support the two principal theories: universalist and substratist. Hawaii Creole manifests in discourse a...
-
Creole Genesis and the Acquisition of Grammar: The Case of Haitian Creole
By Claire LefebvreThis study focuses on the cognitive processes involved in creole genesis: relexification, reanalysis, and direct leveling.
-
The Oxford Handbook of Grammaticalization
By Bernd Heine, Heiko NarrogThis book presents a critical assessment of research on grammaticalization, a central element in the process by which grammars are created.
-
Creole Genesis and the Acquisition of Grammar: The Case of Haitian Creole
By Claire LefebvreThis study focuses on the cognitive processes involved in creole genesis: relexification, reanalysis, and direct leveling.
-
The Mirror of Grammar: Theology, Philosophy, and the Modistae
By Louis G. KellyMuch is known about the grammar of the modistae and about its eclipse; this book sets out to trace its rise.
-
A Hebrew Grammar: With a Praxis on Select Portions of Genesis and the Psalms
By Moses StuartA Hebrew Grammar with a Praxis on Select Portions of Genesis and the Psalms by Moses Stuart, first published in 1823, is a rare manuscript, the original residing in one...
-
Transformational-generative Grammar: An Introductory Survey of Its Genesis and Development
By Bent JacobsenTransformational-generative Grammar: An Introductory Survey of Its Genesis and Development
-
Relabeling in Language Genesis
By Claire Lefebvre"This book presents a coherent picture of the progress that has been made in research on relabeling over the last 15 years"--
-
The Grammar of Interactives
By Bernd HeineThis book explores a domain of discourse processing referred to as 'interactive grammar', based on an analysis of grammatical descriptions of over 100 languages spoken across the world.