Professor of Linguistics and Interim Executive Dean in Arts & Social Sciences at Lancaster University (UK); SFHEA; views expressed here my own; he/him/his
Nov 30, 2021 • 9 tweets • 3 min read
Just read Pleyer & Hartmann’s (2019) paper ‘Constructing a consensus on language evolution? Convergences and differences between biolinguistics and usage-based approaches’ (doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.…). It’s a beast! 🦁 1/
OK, the bibliography takes up 5K of the 19K words, but that in itself tells you something.
The authors (@symbolicstorage and @hartmast) have done an amazing job of surveying the lively and increasingly complex field of language evolution. 2/
