000			04633nam a22004453i 4500
001			EBC5309534
003			MiAaPQ
005			20240729131808.0
006			m o d |
007			cr cnu||||||||
008			240724s2010 xx o ||||0 eng d
020			_a9781441159144 _q(electronic bk.)
020			_z9781441114389
035			_a(MiAaPQ)EBC5309534
035			_a(Au-PeEL)EBL5309534
035			_a(CaPaEBR)ebr11518502
035			_a(OCoLC)1027164352
040			_aMiAaPQ _beng _erda _epn _cMiAaPQ _dMiAaPQ
050		4	_aP116.E39 2010
082	0		_a401
100	1		_aEdwardes, Martin.
245	1	4	_aThe Origins of Grammar : _bAn Anthropological Perspective.
250			_a1st ed.
264		1	_aLondon : _bBloomsbury Publishing Plc, _c2010.
264		4	_c©2010.
300			_a1 online resource (193 pages)
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
505	0		_aIntro -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Why All the Fuss? -- The Problem of Brainpower -- Two Legs, Two Hands -- Making Tools -- Hunting and Culture -- Language: the final frontier? -- The Genetic Problem of Language -- What Is Language for? -- Mapping the Journey -- 2 The Story So Far -- Language Is Tool Use -- Language Is Play -- Language Is a Signal of Fitness -- Language Is Gestural -- Language Is Cognition -- Language Is Social Construction -- Language Just Is -- 3 The Heavy Hand of Generative Linguistics -- Linguistic Structure -- Extending Structure -- Principles and Parameters -- Small Is Beautiful -- Generative Origins -- Is Generative Grammar an Inimical Environment for Language Origins? -- 4 Other Views on Language -- A System of Functions -- Systemic Functional Grammar -- Other Views on Functional Grammar -- Grammar without Tiers? -- Linear Grammars -- Functionalism and the Origins of Grammar -- 5 It's All in the Mind -- A Short History of Cognitive Linguistics -- The Nature of Cognitive Linguistics -- Embodiment -- The Modularity Debate -- The Nature of Cognitive Grammar -- Cognitive Linguistics and Language Origins -- 6 Being Human -- Physical Differences -- Manual Dexterity Is Social Dexterity? -- Working Together -- The Problem of Culture -- The Costs of Reproduction -- Beating the Cheats -- Making Models -- 7 The Weirdness of Self -- Planning and Modelling -- Human Social Models -- The Self and Language -- Selfishness and Self-awareness -- Four Selves -- Awareness of Self -- 8 How Did We Come to Be Human? -- Altruistic Punishment -- Metaphor in Cognition -- THE GROUP IS AN ENTITY -- Where Does the GROUP Come from? -- Altruistic Punishment as an Engine of Socialization -- THE GROUP IS AN ENTITY: building social structures -- THE GROUP IS AN ENTITY: an ancient metaphor? -- What Happened, and When?.
505	8		_a9 How Did We Come to Use Grammar? -- Grammaticalization -- Grammaticalization and Language Origins -- Overture and Beginners, Please -- Not Required at the Origin of Grammar -- Becoming Complex -- From Non-grammar to Grammar -- 10 What Nonhumans Tell Us about Being Human -- Animals and Grammar -- Primate, Know Thyself -- Multiple Intelligences -- Accommodating Others -- Empathy -- Not about Language? -- 11 What Young Humans Tell Us about Being Human -- Children and Language Origins -- Children and Co-operation -- Children and Selfhood -- Children and Language -- 12 What Time Tells Us about Being Human -- Getting Tense -- Doing Other Things with Time -- Adding Depth -- Time, Uncertainty and Fiction -- Becoming Time-aware -- Three Time Points, Three Voices? -- Time and Being Human -- 13 The Evolution of Grammar -- Basic Communication -- Social Modelling -- Uttering Language -- What Language Did Next -- Becoming Myself -- Are There Grammar Universals? -- And Finally -- References -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z.
588			_aDescription based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
590			_aElectronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
650		0	_aLanguage and languages-Origin.
650		0	_aGrammar, Comparative and general.
655		4	_aElectronic books.
776	0	8	_iPrint version: _aEdwardes, Martin _tThe Origins of Grammar _dLondon : Bloomsbury Publishing Plc,c2010 _z9781441114389
797	2		_aProQuest (Firm)
856	4	0	_uhttps://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/orpp/detail.action?docID=5309534 _zClick to View
999			_c136631 _d136631