Ideophones and the Evolution of Language - John Haiman

Ideophones have been recognized in modern linguistics at least since 1935, but they still lie far outside the concerns of mainstream (Western) linguistic debate, in part because they are most richly attested in relatively unstudied (often unwritten) languages. The evolution of language, on the other hand, has recently become a fashionable topic, but all speculations so far have been almost totally data-free. Without disputing the tenet that there are no primitive languages, this book argues that ideophones may be an atavistic throwback to an earlier stage of communication, where sounds and ges Ideophones and the Evolution of Language - John Haiman od authora John Haiman a nakladatelství za skvělé ceny na e-shopu Martinus.cz