Social and Cognitive Bases
Hurford, James R.
Studdert-Kennedy, Michael
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Paperback
452 pages
10 Tables 52 Figures
Published: 1998
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN / EAN: 0521639646
This book considers language within the framework of modern evolutionary theory, emphasising its social bases. Without abandoning the vast gains in phonology and syntax achieved by formal linguistics since the 1950s, this work attempts to bring language w