Ljiljana Progovac (Professor and Director of the Linguistics Progra

Broschiertes Buch

Evolutionary Syntax

Beschreibung

Ljiljana Progovac proposes a gradualist, adaptationist approach to the evolution of syntax, subject to natural selection. The book provides a specific framework for studying the evolution of syntax, combining the fields of evolutionary biology, theoretical syntax, typology, neuroscience, and genetics.

Autor

Ljiljana Progovac is Professor of Linguistics and Director of the Linguistics Program at Wayne State University in Detroit. She received her undergraduate degree in English from the University of Novi Sad, Serbia, and her Ph.D. degree in linguistics from the University of Southern California, Los Angeles. Her research interests include syntax, Slavic syntax, and the evolution of syntax. She is the author of Negative and Positive Polarity (CUP, 1994) and A Syntax of Serbian (Slavica, 2005), as well as multiple journal articles and conference papers on language evolution, and is co-editor of The Syntax of Nonsententials (Benjamins, 2006).

Produktdetails

• Oxford Studies in the Evolution of Language
• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. August 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 233mm x 154mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 438g
• ISBN-13: 9780198736554
• ISBN-10: 019873655X
• Artikelnr.: 42364950