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The origins of grammar: an anthropological perspective
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ISBN: 9781441114389 1441114386 9781441170989 1441170987 9786612821905 1441159142 1282821903 Year: 2010 Publisher: London Continuum

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The book examines the origins of language and grammar and also looks at the nature of being human. As a species, we have a long history of trying to find aspects of ourselves that are exclusively human. Some of the features of humanity thought to be solely the realm of the spiritual - for example cognition and emotion - are increasingly being explained in terms of physical effects. Exclusive physical functions are now questioned too - bipedality, dexterity, socialisation, delayed gratification. Could the differences between the human and animal kingdom be a matter of degrees rather than abso

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