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1 online resource (vi, 258 pages :) : illustrations. |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Trends in linguistics. Studies and monographs ; 133
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Trends in linguistics. Studies and monographs ; 133.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-255) and index. |
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Use copy Restrictions unspecified MiAaHDL |
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Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL |
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Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve MiAaHDL |
| Contents |
""Introduction: New perspectives on an old academic question""; ""1. Biological aspects of the question""; ""On the subcortical bases of the evolution of language""; ""Origin of the human language faculty: the language amoeba hypothesis""; ""2. The first language""; ""The apparent paradox of language evolution: can Universal Grammar be explained by adaptive selection?""; ""Elementary forms of linguistic organisation""; ""From potential to realisation: an episode in the origin of language""; ""Protothought had no logical names""; ""The birth of rules"" |
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""How language changed the genes: toward an explicit account of the evolution of language""""3. Beyond biolinguistics""; ""The narration “instinct�: signalling behaviour, communication, and the selective value of storytelling""; ""Taxonomic controversies in the twentieth century""; ""The origin of origins: a play in five acts, with a prologue im Himmel and an epilogue auf der Erde""; ""References""; ""Index"" |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Language and languages -- Origin.
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Language and languages -- Origin. |
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Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Trabant, Jürgen, editor.
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Ward, Sean, 1963- editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: New essays on the origin of language. Berlin ; [Hawthorne], N.Y. : Mouton de Gruyter, 2001 3110170256 (DLC) 2001034295 (OCoLC)46935997 |
| ISBN |
9783110849080 (electronic book) |
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3110849089 (electronic book) |
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9783110170252 (alkaline paper) |
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3110170256 (alkaline paper) |
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