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【言語の性質と起源】

The Nature and Origin of Language (Oxford Studies in the Evolution of Language, Vol.18) '13

Bouchard, Denis  著

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発行年月 2013年09月
出版社/提供元
Oxford University Press
出版国 イギリス
言語 英語
媒体 冊子
装丁 paper
ページ数/巻数 402 p., Line drawings
ジャンル 洋書/人文科学/言語学 /言語学:概論
ISBN 9780199681631
商品コード 1012202121
新刊案内掲載月 2013年10月
書評掲載誌 Language 2015/09
商品URLhttps://kw.maruzen.co.jp/ims/itemDetail.html?itmCd=1012202121

内容

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 and considers 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 language origins 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, existential constructions, and long-distance dependencies.
Denis Bouchard's outstandingly original account will interest linguists of all persuasions as well as cognitive scientists and others interested in the evolution of language.