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Author: Ljiljana Progovac (Professor and Director of the Linguistics Program, Professor and Director of the Linguistics Program, Wayne State University)
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Imprint: Oxford University Press
Volume: 20
Dimensions:
Width: 16.20cm
, Height: 2.40cm
, Length: 23.90cm
Weight: 0.580kg
ISBN: 9780198736547
ISBN 10: 0198736541
Pages: 280
Publication Date: 04 June 2015
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Professional and scholarly
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Tertiary & Higher Education
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
"Evolutionary Syntax is a major contribution to the literature. It offers a novel gradualist account of the evolution of syntax, grounded in a thorough consideration of a range of linguistic phenomena. This is essential reading for anyone interested in the origin and evolution of the human capacity for language. * Brady Clark, Northwestern University * This is the book that brings Chomsky and Darwin together, arguing that the basic tenets of the minimalist program and its hierarchic sentence structure support a gradualist approach to the evolution of language motivated by natural selection. A must read for linguists of diverse persuasions, demonstrating to theoretical syntacticians the relevance of evolution to the architecture of grammar, while suggesting to students of the evolution of language that valuable insights may be on offer from the minimalist approach. Grammarians will also find novel analyses of ""syntactic fossils"" such as compounds, root small clauses, and thetic statements in this well-written book that is hard to put down. * David Gil, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology *"
Evolutionary Syntax is a major contribution to the literature. It offers a novel gradualist account of the evolution of syntax, grounded in a thorough consideration of a range of linguistic phenomena. This is essential reading for anyone interested in the origin and evolution of the human capacity for language. Brady Clark, Northwestern University This is the book that brings Chomsky and Darwin together, arguing that the basic tenets of the minimalist program and its hierarchic sentence structure support a gradualist approach to the evolution of language motivated by natural selection. A must read for linguists of diverse persuasions, demonstrating to theoretical syntacticians the relevance of evolution to the architecture of grammar, while suggesting to students of the evolution of language that valuable insights may be on offer from the minimalist approach. Grammarians will also find novel analyses of syntactic fossils such as compounds, root small clauses, and thetic statements in this well-written book that is hard to put down. David Gil, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
Author Information
Ljiljana Progovac is Professor of Linguistics and Director of the Linguistics Program at Wayne State University in Detroit. She received her undergraduate degree in English from the University of Novi Sad, Serbia, and her Ph.D. degree in linguistics from the University of Southern California, Los Angeles. Her research interests include syntax, Slavic syntax, and the evolution of syntax. She is the author of Negative and Positive Polarity (CUP, 1994) and A Syntax of Serbian (Slavica, 2005), as well as multiple journal articles and conference papers on language evolution, and is co-editor of The Syntax of Nonsententials (Benjamins, 2006).
