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Linguistic diversity
- Title
- Linguistic diversity / Daniel Nettle.
- Author
- Nettle, Daniel.
- Publication
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1999.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Use in library | P106 .N43 1999 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- x, 168 pages : illustrations, 1 map; 25 cm
- Summary
- "There are some 6,500 different languages in the world, belonging to around 250 distinct families and conforming to numerous grammatical types. This book explains why. Given that the biological mechanisms underlying language are the same in all normal human beings, would we not be a more successful species if we spoke one language? Daniel Nettle considers how this extraordinary and rich diversity arose, how it relates to the origins and evolution of language, cognition, and culture, and how it is linked with the main patterns of human geography and history." "Linguistic Diversity draws on work in anthropology, linguistics, geography, archaeology, and evolutionary science to provide a comprehensive account of the patterns of linguistic diversity. It is written in a clear, lively, and accessible style, and will appeal broadly across the natural and human sciences, as well as to the informed general reader."--BOOK JACKET.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [155]-166) and index.
- Contents
- 1. Introduction -- 2. Language Evolution: Basic Mechanisms -- 3. Language Evolution: Computer Simulations -- 4. Language Diversity: Patterns in Space -- 5. Language Diversity: Changes in Time -- 6. Phylogenetic Diversity -- 7. Structural Diversity -- App: Global Language Diversity Data.
- ISBN
- 0198238584
- 9780198238584
- 0198238576
- 9780198238577
- LCCN
- 98053373
- OCLC
- ocm40479788
- 40479788
- SCSB-825768
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library