The Evolution of Language: Towards Gestural Hypotheses

ISBN-13: 9783631790229 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 286 str.

Przemyslaw Zywiczynski; Slawomir Wacewicz

Opis

Language evolution is a science which studies the origins and diversification of language. This book is an introduction to the topic and is addressed to audiences who are not professionally involved in the study of language evolution.

Spis treści

Language origins - Language evolution - Evolutionism - History of linguistics - History of ideas - History of science - Glottogony - Glossogeny - Darwinism - Neo-Darwinian synthesis - Biological foundations of language

O autorze

Przemyslaw ywiczynski is an Associate Professor of Linguistics at the Department of English, Nicolaus Copernicus University, Torun, Poland.

Slawomir Wacewicz is an Assistant Professor at the same department.

The authors are the founders of NCU's Center for Language Evolution Studies (CLES).