A Critical Introduction to Language Evolution Current Controversies and Future Prospects /

• Main Author: Progovac, Ljiljana (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: Expert Briefs,
• Subjects: Historical linguistics.; Syntax.; Linguistics.; Linguistic anthropology.; Cognitive grammar.; Language History.; Popular Science in Linguistics.; Linguistic Anthropology.; Cognitive Linguistics.

This book provides a critical introduction to the current views and controversies regarding language evolution. It sheds new light on hot topics such as: How ancient is language? Did Neanderthals have some form of language? Did language evolve gradually and incrementally, through stages, or suddenly...

Table of Contents:

• Editor introduction; Helen Aristar-Dry
• 1. Introduction to Divergent Views
• 2. Sudden (Saltationist) Approaches to Language Evolution
• 3. Gradualist Approaches to Language Evolution
• 4. Putting it all Together: The Language-Brain-Genes Loop.