Language Origins

Perspectives on Evolution
Erscheinungsjahr 2005
ISBN: 978-0-19-927903-6
Verlag: OUP Oxford

Buch, Englisch, 448 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 834 g

Reihe: Studies in the Evolution of Language

Zielgruppe

Linguists, phoneticians, biologists, psychologists, archaeologists, anthropologists, ethologists, neuroscientists, specialists in AI, and computer scientists, plus their advanced students. Will also interest the dedicated general reader.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Tallerman, Maggie

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Historische & Vergleichende Sprachwissenschaft, Sprachtypologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Allgemeine Psychologie Kognitionspsychologie
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Humanbiologie
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Evolutionsbiologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Phonetik, Phonologie, Prosodie

Über Autor(innen)

Maggie Tallerman is Reader in Linguistics at Newcastle University. She has spent her professional life in North East England, having previously taught for 21 years at the University of Durham. Her research interests centre on the origins and evolution of syntax and morphology; modern Brythonic Celtic syntax and morphology; and language typology. She is the author of Understanding Syntax (1998; second edition 2005), and has published widely on the
morphosyntax of modern Welsh and Breton, as well as on language evolution. She was review editor for the Journal of Linguistics from 1994 to 2005.