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The Origin of Language: Tracing the Evolution of the Mother Tongue Book

As a sophomore in college, I desperately wanted to major in theoretical linguistics, but I knew only three languages, and I was advised that this was insufficient for the major. Things might have been different if this book were available then: unlike most books about language evolution, Ruhlen's Origin of Language actually gets you involved in applying standard linguistic techniques to carefully chosen examples--by the end of the book, you will have constructed a family tree of the world's languages. And you needn't know any other than your mother tongue when you start, but you'll probably want to go out and learn several more languages by time you are done. Recommended.Read More

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    "Ruhlen is a leader in the new attempt to unify the theory of language development and diffusion."––Library Journal

    "A powerful statement...also a wonderfully clear exposition of linguistic thinking about prehistory."––Anthropological Science

    One of the world's foremost language researchers takes readers step-by-step through the hotly contested evidence that all modern languages derive from one "mother tongue" once spoken by primitive humans in Africa. With The Origin of Language, Merritt Ruhlen makes this fascinating science accessible to readers with no linguistic background.

    MERRITT RUHLEN, PhD (Palo Alto, California) is the author of A Guide to the World's Languages

  • 0471584266
  • 9780471584261
  • Merritt Ruhlen
  • 1 May 1994
  • John Wiley & Sons Inc
  • Hardcover (Book)
  • 239
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