Language Evolution: The Windows Approach

by Rudolf Botha and Rudolf P. Botha

Book Overview

How can we unravel the evolution of language, given that there is no direct evidence about it? Rudolf Botha addresses this intriguing question in his fascinating new book. Inferences can be drawn about language evolution from a range of other phenomena, serving as windows into this prehistoric process. These include shell-beads, fossil skulls and ancestral brains, modern pidgin and creole languages, homesign systems and emergent sign languages, modern...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1316501078
• ISBN13: 9781316501078
• Release Date: March 2016
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 230 Pages
• Weight: 0.98 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.1"