TY  - BOOK
AU  - Pleyer,Michael
AU  - Hartmann,Stefan
TI  - Cognitive linguistics and language evolution
T2  - Cambridge elements. Elements in cognitive linguistics,
SN  - 9781009385022 (ebook)
AV  - P116 .P59 2024
U1  - 401 23
PY  - 2024///
CY  - Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Language and languages
KW  - Origin
KW  - Linguistic change
KW  - Cognitive grammar
N1  - Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 07 Mar 2024); Open Access
N2  - The evolution of language has developed into a large research field. Two questions are particularly relevant for this strand of research: firstly, how did the human capacity for language emerge? And secondly, which processes of cultural evolution are involved both in the evolution of human language from non-linguistic communication and in the continued evolution of human languages? Much research on language evolution that addresses these two questions is highly compatible with the usage-based approach to language pursued in cognitive linguistics. Focusing on key topics such as comparing human language and animal communication, experimental approaches to language evolution, and evolutionary dynamics in language, this Element gives an overview of the current state-of-the-art of language evolution research and discusses how cognitive linguistics and research on the evolution of language can cross-fertilise each other. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009385022
ER  -