Publisher description. The present book offers a paleographic transcription of the 16th century manuscript of Juan de Santa Cruz Pachacuti Yamqui Salcamayhua's, Relación de antigüedades deste Reyno del Pirú, MS 3169 in the Biblioteca Nacional, Madrid, Spain. It discusses questio…
Publisher description. The present book offers a paleographic transcription of the 16th century manuscript of Juan de Santa Cruz Pachacuti Yamqui Salcamayhua's, Relación de antigüedades deste Reyno del Pirú, MS 3169 in the Biblioteca Nacional, Madrid, Spain. It discusses questio…
This is the first social and political history of Urdu. It analyzes the historiography of the language-narratives about its names, linguistic ancestry, place of birth-to the politics of identity construction among the Hindus and Muslims of India during the last two centuries. Mo…
This study embarks on the intriguing quest for the origins of the Caribbean creole language Papiamentu, casting new and long-lasting light on the issue. Embedding exhaustive and rigorous linguistic comparisons in a detailed and novel historical framework, the study convincingly …
"This book discusses the scope and development of the science of language evolution - a newly emergent field that investigates the origin of language. The book is addressed to audiences who are not professionally involved in science and presents the problems of language origins …
"This book discusses the scope and development of the science of language evolution - a newly emergent field that investigates the origin of language. The book is addressed to audiences who are not professionally involved in science and presents the problems of language origins …
Based on a rich set of historical data, this book traces the development of pragmatic markers in English, from hwaet in Old English and whilom in Middle English to whatever and I'm just saying in present-day English. Laurel J. Brinton carefully maps the syntactic origins and dev…
"For ninety per cent of our history, humans have lived as 'hunters and gatherers', and for most of this time, as talking individuals. No direct evidence for the origin and evolution of language exists; we do not even know if early humans had language, either spoken or signed. Ta…
