The Origins of Meaning
(Part of the Oxford Studies in the Evolution of Language Series)
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In this, the first of two ground-breaking volumes on the nature of language in the light of the way it evolved, James Hurford looks at how the world first came to have a meaning in the minds of animals and how in humans this meaning eventually came to be expressed as language. He reviews a mass of evidence to show how close some animals, especially primates and more especially apes, are to the brink of human language. Apes may not talk to us but they...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0199207852
ISBN13:9780199207855
Release Date:October 2007
Publisher:OUP Oxford
Length:406 Pages
Weight:1.70 lbs.
Dimensions:1.1" x 6.5" x 9.3"
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