This book examines the parallels between language evolution and language diachrony. Sociality, co-operation and communication are shown to be rooted in a common

In enlarging the cross-disciplinary domain, the book examines the parallels between language evolution and language diachrony. Sociality, cooperation and commun

This book investigates the nature of human language and its importance for the study of the mind. In particular, it examines current work on the biology of lang

Biolinguistics involves the study of language from a broad perspective that embraces natural sciences, helping us better to understand the fundamentals of the f

Is human language an evolutionary adaptation? Is linguistics a natural science? These questions have bedeviled philosophers, philologists and linguists from Pla