TY  - BOOK
AU  - Tallerman, Maggie, ed.
AU  - Gibson, Kathleen R., jt.. ed.
TI  - Oxford handbook of language evolution / 
SN  - 9780199541119
U1  - 417.7 TAL-M 
PY  - 2012///
CY  - New York
PB  - Oxford University Press
KW  - Linguistic change
KW  - Language and languages--Origin
KW  - Historical linguistics
KW  - Anthropological linguistics
N1  - "In The Oxford Handbook of Language Evolution, sixty leading scholars present critical accounts of every aspect of the field. Its five parts are devoted to insights from comparative animal behavior; the biology of language evolution (anatomy, genetics, and neurology); the prehistory of language (when and why did language evolve?); the development of a linguistic species; and language creation, transmission, and change. Research on language evolution has burgeoned over the last three decades. Interdisciplinary activity has produced fundamental advances in the understanding of language evolution and in human and primate evolution more generally. The book presents a wide-ranging summation of work in all the disciplines involved. It highlights the links in different lines of research, shows what has been achieved to date, and considers the most promising directions for future work"
ER  -