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Title: The Origin and Diversification of Language
Description: San Francisco, California Academy of Scienc, 1998. orig.wrappers. 26x18cm, ix,202 pp. PAPERBACK.. Minor rubbing. VG. ¶ Series: Memoirs of the California Academy of Sciences ; no. 24. Contents : Animal communication and human language / Peter Marler -- The foundations of human language / Leslie C. Aiello -- Comparative aspects of human brain evolution : scaling, energy costs, and confounding variables / Robert D. Martin -- Organization of semantic knowledge and the origin of words in the brain / Alex Martin -- Neanderthals, modern humans, and the archaeological evidence for language / Paul A. Mellars -- The evolution of the human language faculty / Steven Pinker -- The origin and dispersal of languages : linguistic evidence / Johanna Nichols -- The origins of world linguistic diversity : an archaeological perspective / Colin Renfrew.

Keywords: Linguistic Anthropology, Linguistics, Language Origins, Languages History, Ethnology, , , ,

Price: US$ 65.00 Seller: Expatriate Bookshop of Denmark
- Book number: BOOKS015504I