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Author : Otto Jespersen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 462 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Language written by Otto Jespersen and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Merritt Ruhlen
Publisher : Harvard Oriental Series - Opera Minora
ISBN 13 : 9781463244958
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (449 download)
Download or read book The Origin of Language written by Merritt Ruhlen and published by Harvard Oriental Series - Opera Minora. This book was released on 2023 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What can the classification of languages tell us about human origins and human prehistory? This book presents a popular account of the origin of language. It is intended for an audience with no prior knowledge of comparative linguistics, genetics or archaeology. The present volume is a reprint of the 2009 second edition of the book, and includes the text of the first edition (1994) with minor modifications, as well as the scientific evidence for monogenesis, and a Postscript recounting developments in the field since the original publication of the book.
Author : Key Thomas Hewitt
Publisher : Legare Street Press
ISBN 13 : 9781019931585
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (315 download)
Download or read book Language, Its Origin and Development written by Key Thomas Hewitt and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a fascinating and insightful account of the origin and development of language, from its evolutionary roots to its complex social and cognitive dimensions. It synthesizes the latest research in linguistics, anthropology, and psychology, and offers a compelling argument for the centrality of language in human experience. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : Thomas Hewitt Key
Publisher : Nabu Press
ISBN 13 : 9781289798123
Total Pages : 566 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (981 download)
Download or read book Language written by Thomas Hewitt Key and published by Nabu Press. This book was released on 2013-10 with total page 566 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ++++ The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to ensure edition identification: ++++ Language: Its Origin And Development Thomas Hewitt Key G. Bell and sons, 1874 Language Arts & Disciplines; Grammar; Grammar, Comparative and general; Language Arts & Disciplines / Grammar; Language Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics; Language and languages
Author : Robert Mailhammer
Publisher : Museum Tusculanum Press
ISBN 13 : 8763542099
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (635 download)
Download or read book http://admin.mtp.hum.ku.dk/m/editbook.asp?eln=203591 written by Robert Mailhammer and published by Museum Tusculanum Press. This book was released on 2015-11-06 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most of us know of the Indo-European roots of European languages, but how did this precursor language take hold and what did Europe look like before it did so? This book explores the continent before the spread of the Indo-Europeans, examines its indigenous population and the contacts it had with Indo-European and Uralic immigrants, and, ultimately, asks how these origins led to the development of that crucial singularity for Europe’s languages. Drawing on archaeology, religious studies, and palaeography, the contributors offer a detailed and comprehensive picture of Europe’s linguistic and, in turn, cultural prehistory.
Author : Merritt Ruhlen
Publisher : Wiley
ISBN 13 : 9780471159636
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (596 download)
Download or read book The Origin of Language written by Merritt Ruhlen and published by Wiley. This book was released on 1996-08-15 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Ruhlen is a leader in the new attempt to unify the theory of language development and diffusion."––Library Journal "A powerful statement...also a wonderfully clear exposition of linguistic thinking about prehistory."––Anthropological Science One of the world's foremost language researchers takes readers step-by-step through the hotly contested evidence that all modern languages derive from one "mother tongue" once spoken by primitive humans in Africa. With The Origin of Language, Merritt Ruhlen makes this fascinating science accessible to readers with no linguistic background. MERRITT RUHLEN, PhD (Palo Alto, California) is the author of A Guide to the World's Languages
Author : Sverker Johansson
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9027294607
Total Pages : 359 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)
Download or read book Origins of Language written by Sverker Johansson and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2005-02-17 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sverker Johansson has written an unusual book on language origins, with its emphasis on empirical evidence rather than theory-building. This is a book for the student or researcher who prefers solid data and well-supported conclusions, over speculative scenarios. Much that has been written on the origins of language is characterized by hypothesizing largely unconstrained by evidence. But empirical data do exist, and the purpose of this book is to integrate and review the available evidence from all relevant disciplines, not only linguistics but also, e.g., neurology, primatology, paleoanthropology, and evolutionary biology. The evidence is then used to constrain the multitude of scenarios for language origins, demonstrating that many popular hypotheses are untenable. Among the issues covered: (1) Human evolutionary history, (2) Anatomical prerequisites for language, (3) Animal communication and ape "language", (4) Mind and language, (5) The role of gesture, (6) Innateness, (7) Selective advantage of language, (8) Proto-language.
Author : Thomas Hewitt Key
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 574 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 ( download)
Download or read book Language Its Origin and Development by T. Hewitt Key written by Thomas Hewitt Key and published by . This book was released on 1874 with total page 574 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : A.S. Diamond
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1003807682
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (38 download)
Download or read book The History and Origin of Language written by A.S. Diamond and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-12-30 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 1959 The history and origin of language deals with one of the most important and most fascinating subject matter of all human historical problems-that of the origin and development of language. It is the first attempt to solve it, not by a priori methods, but by marshalling and analyzing the whole of the evidence. It is a work of great originality by a scholar who has written other well-known sociological works, and the treatment is that of the sociologist. Dr Diamond writes for the intelligent layman as well as the linguist. He first seeks the true nature of language and its true function and structure in modern society and traces the paths along which language has developed and changed in its known history, both in the forms of its words and in their meanings, examining for this purpose many languages of civilized and primitive peoples. These paths he then pursues backwards with the aid of data from human physiology, the language of children, and observations of animal behaviour, and shows how all these paths converge to one beginning and deduces how language originated-both the form of its first words and their meanings. He finally shows relics of these earliest words and meanings in languages which still survive. The arguments are cumulative and many sided, and the case made is convincing. This is a must read for scholars and researchers of linguistics.
Author : Robin Ian MacDonald Dunbar
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674363366
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (633 download)
Download or read book Grooming, Gossip, and the Evolution of Language written by Robin Ian MacDonald Dunbar and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here, the author examines gossip as a form of 'verbal grooming', and as a means of strengthening relationships. He challenges the idea that language developed during male activities such as hunting, and that it was actually amongst women that it evolved.
Author : Thomas Pyles
Publisher : New York : Harcourt, Brace & World
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 520 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Origins and Development of the English Language written by Thomas Pyles and published by New York : Harcourt, Brace & World. This book was released on 1982 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The focus on this 3rd ed., as in the previous, remains on the internal history of English, theoretical implications and purely external history are purposely kept to a minimum. As in the earlier editions, too, the treatment is descriptive and traditional so that students with no prior study of linguistics or of languages will find this text accessible.
Author : Thomas Hewitt Key
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781330377499
Total Pages : 569 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (774 download)
Download or read book Language, Its Origin and Development written by Thomas Hewitt Key and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-06-25 with total page 569 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Language, Its Origin and Development The following volume has grown out of the Lectures on Comparative Grammar, which have been delivered in University College in the years1841-1873; but some matters have been passed over more lightly, because they had been discussed in greater fullness in the Philological Essays, which were published in 1868, and may be regarded as supplementary to what is now put forth. It will be found that the illustrations of my arguments have been drawn chiefly from the Latin language, and this for two reasons. In the first place this has been the special line of my own studies; and secondly the language is one likely to be familiar to a considerable number of my readers. No doubt many will see with surprise that the Sanskrit is not here made the one basis of my enquiries; but while I once more confess with regret, but not with any feeling of shame, my ignorance of this language, I must also now declare my matured conviction, that the high claims of superiority over all other languages commonly put forward in favour of this language, are grounded on gross exaggeration of its merits; and over and above this, that the use made of it by Sanskritists is often far from satisfactory. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : Géza Révész
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book The Origins and Prehistory of Language written by Géza Révész and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : David F. Armstrong
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198036914
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (98 download)
Download or read book The Gestural Origin of Language written by David F. Armstrong and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2007-04-19 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Gestural Origin of Language, Sherman Wilcox and David Armstrong use evidence from and about sign languages to explore the origins of language as we know it today. According to their model, it is sign, not spoken languages, that is the original mode of human communication. The authors demonstrate that modern language is derived from practical actions and gestures that were increasingly recognized as having the potential to represent, and hence to communicate. In other words, the fundamental ability that allows us to use language is our ability to use pictures or icons, rather than linguistic symbols. Evidence from the human fossil record supports the authors' claim by showing that we were anatomically able to produce gestures and signs before we were able to speak fluently. Although speech evolved later as a secondary linguistic communication device that eventually replaced sign language as the primary mode of communication, speech has never entirely replaced signs and gestures. As the first comprehensive attempt to trace the origin of grammar to gesture, this volume will be an invaluable resource for students and professionals in psychology, linguistics, and philosophy.
Author : Otto Jespersen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 460 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Language written by Otto Jespersen and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Daniel L. Everett
Publisher : Liveright Publishing
ISBN 13 : 087140477X
Total Pages : 309 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (714 download)
Download or read book How Language Began: The Story of Humanity's Greatest Invention written by Daniel L. Everett and published by Liveright Publishing. This book was released on 2017-11-07 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Buzzfeed Gift Guide Selection “Few books on the biological and cultural origin of humanity can be ranked as classics. I believe [this] will be one of them.” — Edward O. Wilson At the time of its publication, How Language Began received high acclaim for capturing the fascinating history of mankind’s most incredible creation. Deemed a “bombshell” linguist and “instant folk hero” by Tom Wolfe (Harper’s), Daniel L. Everett posits that the near- 7,000 languages that exist today are not only the product of one million years of evolution but also have allowed us to become Earth’s apex predator. Tracing 60,000 generations, Everett debunks long- held theories across a spectrum of disciplines to affi rm the idea that we are not born with an instinct for language. Woven with anecdotes of his nearly forty years of fi eldwork amongst Amazonian hunter- gatherers, this is a “completely enthralling” (Spectator) exploration of our humanity and a landmark study of what makes us human. “[An] ambitious text. . . . Everett’s amiable tone, and especially his captivating anecdotes . . . , will help the neophyte along.”— New York Times Book Review
Author : T. Key
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3382509547
Total Pages : 566 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (825 download)
Download or read book Language: Its Origin and Development written by T. Key and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-10-18 with total page 566 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1874. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.
