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This book offers an accessible overview of what is known about the evolution of the human capacity for language and what sets human language apart from the simp

It is tempting to take the tremendous rate of contemporary linguistic change for granted. What is required, in fact, is a radical reinterpretation of what langu

Sverker Johansson has written an unusual book on language origins, with its emphasis on empirical evidence rather than theory-building. This is a book for the s

The question of how language emerged is one of the most fascinating and difficult problems in science. In recent years, a strong resurgence of interest in the e

Berwick and Chomsky draw on recent developments in linguistic theory to offer an evolutionary account of language and humans' remarkable, species-specific abili