27.743, Books: Roots of language: Bickerton

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Date: Mon, 08 Feb 2016 16:43:33
From: Sebastian Nordhoff [Sebastian.Nordhoff at langsci-press.org]
Subject: Roots of language: Bickerton

 


Title: Roots of language 
Series Title: Classics in linguistics 3  

Publication Year: 2016 
Publisher: Language Science Press
	   http://langsci-press.org
	

Book URL: http://langsci-press.org/catalog/book/91 


Author: Derek Bickerton

Electronic: ISBN:  9783946234081 Pages: 305 Price: Europe EURO 0 Comment: Open Access


Abstract:

Roots of language was originally published in 1981 by Karoma Press (Ann
Arbor).

It was the first work to systematically develop a theory first suggested by
Coelho in the late nineteenth century: that the creation of creole languages
somehow reflected universal properties of language. The book also proposed
that the same set of properties would be found to emerge in normal
first-language acquisition and must have emerged in the original evolution of
language. These proposals, some of which were elaborated in an article in
Behavioral and Brain Sciences (1984), were immediately controversial and gave
rise to a great deal of subsequent research in creoles, much of it aimed at
rebutting the theory. The book also served to legitimize and stimulate
research in language evolution, a topic regarded as off-limits by linguists
for over a century. The present edition contains a foreword by the author
bringing the theory up to date and is available as Open Access, the former
edition having gone out of print. 

The book is the third volume of the series Classics in Linguistics, which
republishes seminal works of linguistics available as Open Access. In this
particular case, the book has been cited over 2500 times, but as it is out of
print, it was difficult to get hold of a copy. With this Open Access
publication, readers can now rediscover a true classic of the field of Creole
studies.
 



Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics
                     Language Acquisition
                     Sociolinguistics


Written In: English  (eng)

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