The Nature and Origin of Language by Denis Bouchard (English) Hardcover Book

by Denis Bouchard

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The Nature and Origin of Language by Denis Bouchard Estimated delivery 3-12 business days Format Hardcover Condition Brand New Description Denis Bouchard looks at how the human brain got the capacity for language and how language evolved. He argues that language is a system of signs and considers how these elements first came together in the brain. His account of language origins offers insights into language and to constructions that have defied decades of linguistic analysis. Publisher Description This book looks at how the human brain got the capacity for language and how language then evolved. Its four parts are concerned with different views on the emergence of language, with what language is, how it evolved in the human brain, and finally how this process led to the properties of language. Part I considers the main approaches to the subject and how far language evolved culturally or genetically. Part II argues that language is a system of signs andconsiders how these elements first came together in the brain. Part III examines the evidence for brain mechanisms to allow the formation of signs. Part IV shows how the book s explanation of languageorigins and evolution is not only consistent with the complex properties of languages but provides the basis for a theory of syntax that offers insights into the learnability of language and to the nature of constructions that have defied decades of linguistic analysis, including including subject-verb inversion in questions, exis

• Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
• Year: 2013
• Binding: Hardcover
• ISBN: 9780199681624
• Condition: Fine

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