Origin and Evolution of Languages: Approaches, Models, Paradigms Book

Origins and evolution of languages: retrospectives and perspectives   Jean-Paul Demoule   Bernard Laks   Serge Cleuziou   Pierre Encreve     1
Genetic evolution and the evolution of languages   Luigi Lucas Cavalli-Sforza     29
Languages, genes, and prehistory, with special reference to Europe   Bernard Comrie     40
Poor design features in language as clues to its prehistory   Andrew Carstairs-McCarthy     63
What can we learn about the earliest human language by comparing languages known today?   Lyle Campbell     79
Conceptualization, communication, and the origins of grammar   Frederick J. Newmeyer     112
The origin of language as a product of the evolution of modern cognition   Gilles Fauconnier   Mark Turner     133
Comparativism: from genealogy to genetics   Bernard Laks     157
Simulating the expansion of farming and the differentiation of European languages   Domenico Parisi   Francesco Antinucci   Francesco Natale   Federico Cecconi     192
Colin Renfrew's hypothesis on the Near-Eastern origin of the original Indo-European people: an evaluation   Jean-Paul Demoule     215
New perspectives on the origin of languages   Merritt Ruhlen     241
Linguistic history and computational cladistics   Don Ringe   Tandy Warnow     257
What do creoles and pidgins tell us about the evolution of language?   Salikoko S. Mufwene     272
Does history begin before Sumer?   Serge Cleuziou     298
Index of authors     331
Index of languages     338
Index of subjects     341