Abstract
Alan Barnard’s Language in prehistory attempts to find an accommodation between linguistic and evolutionary theory and apply insights from archeology and anthropology to the origins and purposes of language. Rudolph Botha’s Language evolution: The windows approach is a critique of employing evidence from other fields. Botha also critiques conclusions drawn from pidgins and creoles, homesign, motherese, grammaticalization, language acquisition, protolanguage, and comparative animal behaviour. This review attempts in turn to bring into question the appropriateness of applying the framework of generative linguistics, and its style of argumentation, to prehistory. Keywords: Generative Linguistics, Recursion, UG (Universal Grammar), LAD (Language Acquisition Device), grammaticalization, language evolution, language in prehistory Books under Review Barnard, Alan. 2016. Language in prehistory . Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. xii, 184 pages. Paperback $24.99. Rudolph Botha. 2016. Language evolution:The windows approach. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. 318 pages. Paperback $39.99.
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