Unravelling the Evolution of Language

by Rudolf Philip Botha and Rudolf P. Botha

What blocks the way to a better understanding of language evolution, it is widely held, is above all a paucity of factual evidence. Not so, argues Unravelling the Evolution of Language . This book finds the main obstacle, instead, in a poverty of a specific kind of theory--restrictive theory. It shows, too, that this poverty of restrictive theory is one of the root causes of the paucity of factual evidence. "Unravelling"...takes it that a theory of...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: B01EVMZS4A
• ISBN13: 9780080443188
• Release Date: November 2003
• Publisher: BRILL
• Length: 254 Pages
• Weight: 1.12 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 8.9"