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