The Evolution of Language: Towards Gestural Hypotheses

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.

This book discusses the scope and development of the science of language evolution a newly emergent field that investigates the origin of language. The book is addressed to audiences who are not professionally involved in science and presents the problems of language origins together with introductory information on such topics as the theory of evolution, elements of linguistic theory, the neural infrastructure of language or the signalling theory.

Autorentext

Przemys aw ywiczy ski is an Associate Professor of Linguistics at the Department of English, Nicolaus Copernicus University, Torü, Poland. S awomir Wacewicz is an Assistant Professor at the same department. The authors are the founders of NCU s Center for Language Evolution Studies (CLES).

Inhalt

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