• DOI:10.1016/B978-0-444-51747-0.50014-7
Corpus ID: 15357648

Linguistics From an Evolutionary Point of View

@inproceedings{Hurford2012LinguisticsFA,
  title={Linguistics From an Evolutionary Point of View},
  author={J. R. Hurford},
  year={2012}
}

• J. R. Hurford
• Published 2012
• Sociology

Beginning Linguistics students are sometimes treated to an array of mock “theories” about the evolution of language, including the “Bow-wow” theory, the “Dingdong” theory and others with equally silly and dismissive names. The 1886 ban on the subject (along with proposals for a universal language) by the Societe Linguistique de Paris is well known, and also sometimes thrown up as a proscription that should be reimposed. Research into the evolution of language never really died, though its… Expand

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