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Books on: language origin

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New Essays on the Origin of Language

Book by Jurgen Trabant, Sean Ward; Mouton de Gruyter, 2001

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Language And Languages--Origin

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...thousands of years between the origin of the language faculty and the origin of the first language. This raises a number...was there one first language or did the language faculty...Structural equivalencies across languages are not evidence for a...
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The Origin of Language: Aspects of the Discussion from Condillac to Wundt

Book by G. A. Wells; Open Court Publishing, 1987

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Language And Languages--Origin, Language And Languages--Philosophy

Collections: Education, Philosophy, Entire Library

...Linguistics and History", in Language, Culture and History. Essays...1964. 87. Hewes G. W., Language Origins: A Bibliography...of the Gestural Theory of Language Origin", in Origins and Evolution of Language...Its Nature, Development and Origin , London: Allen and Unwin...
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The Origins of Complex Language: An Inquiry into the Evolutionary Beginnings of Sentences, Syllables, and Truth

Book by Andrew Carstairs-McCarthy; Oxford University Press, 1999

Subjects:

Language And Languages--Origin, Language And Languages--Philosophy

Collections: Philosophy, Entire Library

...linguists to concern themselves at all with language evolution. Speculations about language origin seem to be just that--speculations, with...being either confirmed or falsified. Various language-origin theories of the eighteenth and nineteenth...
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The Evolutionary Emergence of Language: Social Function and the Origins of Linguistic Form

Book by Chris Knight, Michael Studdert-Kennedy, James R. Hurford; Cambridge University Press, 2000

Subjects:

Anthropological Linguistics, Human Evolution, Language And Languages--Origin

Collections: Entire Library

...Communication JASON NOBLE 1. Language Origins and Darwinian Thought Theories of the origin of language are necessarily...any account of language origins must be consistent with...many stories of language origin, such as the suggestion...
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The Japanese People: Origins of the People and the Language

Book by Isao Komatsu; Kokusai Bunka Shinkokai, 1962

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Japanese Language--History, Japanese--Origin

Collections: History, Entire Library

...racial as well as cultural origins. They find many southern...definitely southern in its origin. If the people and the culture...allowable to consider that the language in west Japan is also southern...related in any way to the languages in Northeast Asia? We shall...the origin of the Japanese language. The Origin of the Japanese Language Many theories have so far...

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Journal Articles on: language origin

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Affect and Cognition in Two Theories of the Origin of Language

Journal article by Daniel Shanahan; Papers on Language & Literature, Vol. 36, 2000

Subjects:

Cognition--Analysis, Human evolution--Analysis, Language and languages--Origin, Myth--Analysis

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...acknowledging that language eventually takes on...Cassirer insists that the origins of language must be seen within...significance. In The Languages of the Brain, Karl...Pribram, Karl. Languages of the Brain: Experimental...Jan, et al., eds. Language Origin: A Multidisciplinary...
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An Oceanic Origin for Aiwoo, the Language of the Reef Islands?

Journal article by Malcolm Ross, Ashild Naess; Oceanic Linguistics, Vol. 46, 2007

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Austronesian languages--Analysis, Austronesian languages--Origin, Grammar, Comparative and general--Analysis, Grammar, Comparative and general--Syntax, Linguistic analysis (Linguistics), Syntax--Analysis

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An Oceanic Origin for Aiwoo, the Language of the Reef Islands...Naess Whether the languages of the Reefs...Southeast Solomonic languages have their origins in RSC (Sheppard...genealogy of a language. Syntax changes...proform have Oceanic origins. We have examined...it is a Papuan language and have shown...other Oceanic languages (nominalizing...
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The Extinct Language of Gurgan: Its Sources and Origins

Journal article by Habib Borjian; The Journal of the American Oriental Society, Vol. 128, 2008

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Iranian languages--Distribution, Iranian languages--Origin, Linguistics--Research

Collections: History, Entire Library

The Extinct Language of Gurgan: Its Sources and Origins. by Habib Borjian...poorly studied Iranian languages is Gurgani, the extinct language of Gurgan, the Persian...13) Among these languages Parthian was already a dead language in the eleventh century...literature. As for the origin of the poem, Vladimir...
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Vico, Giambattista. on the Most Ancient Wisdom of the Italians: Drawn out from the Origins of the Latin Language

Journal article by Riccardo Pozzo; The Review of Metaphysics, Vol. 65, 2011

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Books--Book reviews, On the Most Ancient Wisdom of the Italians: Drawn out from the Origins of the Latin Language (Nonfiction work)--Book reviews

Collections: Philosophy, Entire Library

...Wisdom of the Italians: Drawn out from the Origins of the Latin Language. by Riccardo Pozzo VICO, Giambattista. On...Wisdom of the Italians: Drawn out from the Origins of the Latin Language. Translated by Jason Taylor and Introduction...
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Word Origins ... and How We Know Them

Journal article by Richard Coates; The Modern Language Review, Vol. 102, 2007

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Books--Book reviews, Word Origins...and How We Know Them (Book)--Book reviews

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Word Origins ... and How We Know Them. by Richard Coates Word Origins ... and How We Know Them...linguistics (pp. 248-49), but language is not a purely historical...correct, observation that language and literature canonize their...

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Magazine Articles on: language origin

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Language Origins

Magazine article by Merritt Ruhlen; National Forum, Vol. 76, Winter 1996

Subjects:

Evolution, History, Languages

Collections: History, Entire Library

...we may speak of the origin of the language capacity...The second sense of language origins, which I will focus...has to do with the origin of the roughly 5,000 languages currently spoken around...all Native American languages (Blackfoot, Mohawk...bizarre situation in The Origin of Language. Origins of Eurasiatic What...
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Q&A: Chris Edwards Discusses Where Is Prostitution Legal, the Galileo Global Positioning System, the Most Commonly Spoken Language, the Origins of Timor's Ocussi Enclave and British Troops Overseas

Magazine article by Chris Edwards; Geographical, Vol. 78, April 2006

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Chinese language--Rankings, Chinese language--Statistics, English language--Rankings, English language--Statistics, Exclaves--Natural history, Language and languages--Rankings, Language and languages--Statistics, Prostitution--Laws, regulations and rules, Prostitution--Social aspects

Collections: History, Entire Library

...Commonly Spoken Language, the Origins of Timors Ocussi Enclave and...because English is the official language even though its spoken by...French is spoken as an official language in 33 countries, and so comes...Arabic, but its the principal language of 24 countries. Spanish...some overlap between official languages in some countries. For example...
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Shadow Language

Magazine article by Eric Ormsby; New Criterion, Vol. 21, April 2003

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Authors, English--Origin, Language and languages--Usage, Poetry--Technique, Shakespeare, William--Origin

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...the poetry in its original language that fascinated and, indeed...poems in a dozen different languages, including Chinese. Without...of listening to songs in languages we dont understand: "Genuine language, even when we do not know...Roman and lapidary in its origins and has behind it a fierce...the shadow of the hidden languages that casts the poems rude...
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The Fifth Miracle: The Search for the Origin and Meaning of Life

Magazine article by Michael J. Behe; First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life, June 1999

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Books--Reviews, The Fifth Miracle: The Search for the Origin and Meaning of Life (Book)--Reviews

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...undirected and purely chemical origin of life have, of course...wrapping up the mystery of lifes origin." But if he had read The Mystery of Lifes Origin by Charles Thaxton, or Origins by Robert Shapiro, or even...code mediates between the two languages of life--proteins and nucleic...
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The Suspension of Disbelief and the Origin of Culture: Religion's Role in the Evolution of Society

Magazine article by Carl Coon; Free Inquiry, Vol. 23, Spring 2003

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Civilization--Origin, Civilization--Religious aspects, Culture, Religion--Analysis, Religion--Origin, Religion--Social aspects

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, Entire Library

...mostly social, i.e., facility in language facilitated both group equilibrium and...have identified an area that serves as a language "module." Other primates exhibit signs...of human behavior in general, and the origins of culture in particular. In the interest...

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Newspaper Articles on: language origin

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PHRASE A LAUGH; WACKY ORIGINS OF THE SAYINGS WE TAKE FOR GRANTED Don't Go Berserk as We Hit the Ground Running with a No Holds Barred Acid Test to Find the Whipping Boy and Chew the Cud, Let's Veg out Now That Elvis Has Left the Building THEY Are Phrases and Sayings That We Use Every Day without Thinking

Newspaper article; The People (London, England), October 1, 2006

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

PHRASE A LAUGH; WACKY ORIGINS OF THE SAYINGS WE TAKE FOR...ALISTAIR RICHARDSON WACKY ORIGINS OF THE SAYINGS WE TAKE FOR...foggiest idea. Our colourful language contains hundreds of phrases...test you can be sure of. Origin: In the 19th Century California...The absolute best there is. Origin: Bees carry pollen back to...
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Origin OF THE Speeches; WHERE OUR WORDS COME FROM

Newspaper article; The Mirror (London, England), August 23, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

Origin OF THE Speeches; WHERE OUR...rich tapestry of the English language - without which wed never...than 2,000 words to our language, including "countless...uncontrollable fear, has its origins in Greek mythology. It comes...world has also enriched our language, giving us "decruit...
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`Origin of Species' Not Terribly Original

Newspaper article by Nelson Pressley; The Washington Times, June 5, 1998

Subjects:

Victoria

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

`Origin of Species not terribly original...Pressley In Bryony Laverys "Origin of the Species," an archaeologist...is only just learning the language, some of the lines are awfully...ages and in the present. "Origin of the Species" makes you...
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Origins of the Christian and Jewish Bibles Daringly Traced

Newspaper article by Martin Sieff; The Washington Times, December 27, 1998

Subjects:

Akenson, Donald Harman

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

Origins of the Christian and Jewish Bibles daringly traced by Martin...seemingly endless number of detailed technical debates about the origin of the writings that make up both the Jewish and Christian...unusual. But he also brings the fecund delight in sparkling language that enlightened his biography of "The Cruiser," as Mr...
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Proof That Origin of Kilt Is Scots

Newspaper article; The News Letter (Belfast, Northern Ireland), October 19, 2005

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

Proof That Origin of Kilt Is Scots. AN Ulster academic is set to turn the...Scottish. Mr Smyth, development officer with the Ulster Scots Language Society, has won a grant from the Arts Council for Northern...myth by writing a more faithful account of the kilts true origins down the centuries. Through a series of fortunate accidents...

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Encyclopedia Articles on: language origin

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Spanish Language

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...and is one of the official languages of the United Nations. Spanish...of ancient Rome (see Latin language ). Thus the Spanish vocabulary is basically of Latin origin, although it has been enriched...many loan words from other languages, especially Arabic, French...cent. a.d. The Spanish language employs the Roman alphabet...
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Turkish Language

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...Turkey and one of the official languages of Cyprus. It is spoken by...is the standard form of the language. Like the other Uralic and Altaic languages, Turkish is characterized...attempted to purify their language by eliminating words of foreign...especially Persian and Arabic, origin and to simplify the literary...
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Creole Language

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

CREOLE LANGUAGE kreol , any language that began as a pidgin but was later...speculate that they share a common origin, probably Sabir (see lingua franca...to universal laws governing human language...
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Language

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

LANGUAGE systematic communication...Nothing is known of its origin, although scientists...human ability to use language. Scientists generally...comparison. Just as languages spoken now by peoples...similarly the forms of languages known (or hypothetically...modern forms. Because language is a cultural system...
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Afroasiatic Languages

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...theory holds that the language family came into being...aside from some Semitic languages encountered in SW Asia...Semitic. The place of origin of proto-Semitic...The Role of Semitic Languages in the Development...writing used for Semitic languages is either cuneiform...see Sumer ), whose language was not a Semitic tongue...this and regard the origin of the South Semitic...

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