by Daniel Nettle (Author), Daniel Nettle (Author)
Investigating the diversity of language, this text examines why diversity evolved at all, given that the biological mechanisms underlying language are the same in all human beings. The distribution of diversity is discussed as being linked with the major patterns of human geography and prehistory.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 184
Edition: edizione: 1a
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 22 Apr 1999
ISBN 10: 9780198238
ISBN 13: 9780198238577