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Here’s a book with a novel thesis: the English language has been, to coin a term, Vikingized. A creolized language is a grossly simple pidgin language that has been turned into a syntactically-complex mother tongue. A...
A couple of new books that are not quite on the topic of this blog, but are of related interest to regulars on this blog:
Michael Tomasello, Why We Cooperate is a new title from one of this blog's heroes. I have reported much of this before, but it...
Me Tarzan. — You Jane. Could anybody have ever really talked in that super-simple manner?
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A plausible account of the evolution of syntax is coming into view. I had almost despaired.
Most syntacticians...
I've been trying to track down information on a presentation this week in Honolulu at the American Society of Human Genetics Convention. Raymond Clarke of New South Wales, Australia reports that a gene, called the "tospeak" gene has been identified as...
Me Tarzan. — You Jane. Could anybody have ever really talked in that super-simple manner?
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A plausible account of the evolution of syntax is coming into view. I had almost despaired.
Most syntacticians (I believe)...
As a hobby-linguist, I'm thrilled to find a whole blog on the topic of language origins. This is much more satisfying than an article here, a snippet there.
