Lock, Andrew, and Charles Peters 1996 Handbook of Human Symbolic Evolution, Clarendon Press, Oxford.

 Home/Search   Document Not in Database   Summary   Related Articles  

This paper is cited in the following contexts:
The Emergence of Syntax - James Hurford (2000)   (1 citation)  (Correct)

.... has tended to apply to linguists in general; paradoxically, mainstream scholarly linguists have typically been outnumbered in speculation on the evolution of language by anthropologists, psychologists and paleontologists (witness the list of contributors to Lock and Peters massive Handbook (Lock and Peters, 1996). Why have linguists traditionally been so reticent contributing to evolutionary debates Two reasons come to mind. Firstly, the very complexity of human languages, especially their syntactic components, of which linguists above all (and one might even say only linguists) have been fully aware, is ....

Lock, Andrew, and Charles Peters 1996 Handbook of Human Symbolic Evolution, Clarendon Press, Oxford.

Online articles have much greater impact   More about CiteSeer.IST   Add search form to your site   Submit documents   Feedback  

CiteSeer.IST - Copyright Penn State and NEC