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Historical linguistics --- Diachronic linguistics --- Dynamic linguistics --- Evolutionary linguistics --- Language and languages --- Language and history --- Linguistics --- History

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This is the second of the two closely linked but self-contained volumes that comprise James Hurford's acclaimed exploration of the biological evolution of language. In the first book he looked at the evolutionary origins of meaning, ending as our distant ancestors were about to step over the brink to modern language. He now considers how that step might have been taken and the consequences it undoubtedly had. The capacity for language lets human beings formulate and express an unlimited range of propositions about real or fictitious worlds. It allows them to communicate these propositions, oft

Language and languages --- Grammar, Comparative and general --- Historical linguistics. --- Diachronic linguistics --- Dynamic linguistics --- Evolutionary linguistics --- Language and history --- Linguistics --- Origin of languages --- Speech --- Origin. --- History. --- History --- Origin --- Philology

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Multilingualism. --- Learning and scholarship. --- Buddhism --- Buddhism. --- Asia, Central. --- Tokharian language --- Tokharian language. --- Multilingualism --- Languages in contact --- Historical linguistics --- Diachronic linguistics --- Dynamic linguistics --- Evolutionary linguistics --- Language and languages --- Language and history --- Linguistics --- Areal linguistics --- Plurilingualism --- Polyglottism --- History --- Asia, Central --- Languages.

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The native speaker is one of the central but at the same time most controversial concepts of modern linguistics. With regard to English, it became especially controversial with the rise of the so-called "New Englishes," where reality is much more complex than the neat distinction into native and non-native speakers would make us believe. This volume reconstructs the coming-into-being of the English native speaker in the second half of the nineteenth century in order to probe into the origins of the problems surrounding the concept today. A corpus of texts which includes not only the classics of the nineteenth-century linguistic literature but also numerous lesser-known articles from periodical journals of the time is investigated by means of historical discourse analysis in order to retrace the production and reproduction of this particularly important linguistic ideology.

English language --- Historical linguistics. --- Diachronic linguistics --- Dynamic linguistics --- Evolutionary linguistics --- Language and languages --- Language and history --- Linguistics --- Germanic languages --- Usage. --- Variation. --- Social aspects. --- History --- Historical linguistics --- Social aspects --- Usage --- Variation --- Applied Linguistics. --- English Studies. --- Historical Linguistics. --- Sociolinguistics.

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This book presents a comprehensive survey of historically attested relative clause constructions from a diachronic typological perspective. Systematic integration of historical data and a typological approach demonstrates how typology and historical linguistics can each benefit from attention to the other. The diachronic behaviour of relative clauses is mapped across a broad range of genetically and geographically diverse languages. Central to the discussion is the strength of evidence for what have previously been claimed to be 'natural' or even 'universal' pathways of change. While many feat

Historical linguistics --- Grammar --- Grammar, Comparative and general --- Space and time in language. --- Typology (Linguistics). --- Historical linguistics. --- Relatives --- Espace et temps dans le langage --- Typologie (Linguistique) --- Linguistique historique --- Relative clauses. --- Space and time in language --- Typology (Linguistics) --- Language and languages --- Linguistic typology --- Linguistics --- Linguistic universals --- Diachronic linguistics --- Dynamic linguistics --- Evolutionary linguistics --- Language and history --- Clauses, Relative --- Relative clauses --- Typology --- Classification --- History --- Clauses --- Philology