This volume combines Rousseau's essay on the origin of diverse languages with Herder's essay on the genesis of the faculty of speech. Rousseau's essay is import

This book offers an accessible overview of what is known about the evolution of the human capacity for language and what sets human language apart from the simp

What can the classification of languages tell us about human origins and human prehistory? This book presents a popular account of the origin of language. It is

Sverker Johansson has written an unusual book on language origins, with its emphasis on empirical evidence rather than theory-building. This is a book for the s

Berwick and Chomsky draw on recent developments in linguistic theory to offer an evolutionary account of language and humans' remarkable, species-specific abili