The Origin of Language : : Tracing the Evolution of the Mother Tongue /

The Origin of Language : : Tracing the Evolution of the Mother Tongue / / Merritt Ruhlen.

This book, The Origin of Language: Tracing the Evolution of the Mother Tongue, originally published in 1994 by John Wiley & Sons, was written in a more popular style, accessible to an educated general audience, than the more scholarly and academic tome of a similar title, On the Origin of Langua...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus PP Package 2023 Part 2
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Ruhlen, Merritt ,
Place / Publishing House:Piscataway, NJ : : Gorgias Press, , [2023]
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Year of Publication:2023
Language:English
Series:Harvard Oriental Series - Opera Minora ; 14
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Physical Description:1 online resource (319 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Preface 2010
  • Preface 1994
  • Contents
  • Prologue: What Do We Mean by the Origin of Language?
  • 1 Language and History: Voices from the Past
  • 2 Language Families: What is Known
  • 3 Controversy: What is Debated
  • 4 Native Americans: Language in the New World
  • 5 The Origin of Language: Are There Global Cognates?
  • 6 A Window on the World: What Has Been Resolved
  • 7 Genes: Biology and Language
  • 8 The Emerging Synthesis: On the Origin of Modern Humans
  • Epilogue: Reconstruction, Sound Correspondences, and Homelands
  • An Annotated Bibliography
  • Appendices
  • Index

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