by Daniel Nettle (Author), Daniel Nettle (Author), D. H. Nettleton (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: Hardcover
Pages: 184
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Published: 06 May 1999
ISBN 10: 0198238584
ISBN 13: 9780198238584