
The Origin of Language
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Content
- Intro
- Preface 2010
- Preface 1994
- Contents
- Prologue: What Do We Mean by the Origin of Language?
- 1 Language and History: Voices from the Past
- 2 Language Families: What is Known
- 3 Controversy: What is Debated
- 4 Native Americans: Language in the New World
- 5 The Origin of Language: Are There Global Cognates?
- 6 A Window on the World: What Has Been Resolved
- 7 Genes: Biology and Language
- 8 The Emerging Synthesis: On the Origin of Modern Humans
- Epilogue: Reconstruction, Sound Correspondences, and Homelands
- An Annotated Bibliography
- Appendices
- Index
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