Language Origins Perspectives on Evolution

This title includes the following features: Latest developments in athriving cross-disciplinary project; Informed by most recent research, includingartificial intelligence and neuroscience; Supported by empirical methods anddata; Covers all aspects of language evolution, including speech, syntax, andthe learnability and diversity of language; Analogous and homologous traits inother species

Maggie Tallerman is Reader in Linguistics at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne. She has spent her professional life in North East England, having previously taught for 21 years at the University of Durham. Her research interests centre on the origins and evolution of syntax and morphology; modern Brythonic Celtic syntax and morphology; and language typology. She is the author of Understanding Syntax (1998; second edition 2005), and has published widely on the morphosyntax of modern Welsh and Breton, as well as on language evolution. She was review editor for the Journal of Linguistics from 1994 to 2005.