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THE ORIGIN OF LANGUAGE: Tracing the Evolution of the Mother Tongue

THE ORIGIN OF LANGUAGE: Tracing the Evolution of the Mother Tongue Paperback - 1994

by Merritt Ruhlen

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New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc, 1994. 8th printing. Paperback. As New. 239p. A softcover book in fine condition.
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Inasmuch as written language, so far as anyone knows, is only about 5,000 years old-and spoken language by itself leaves no historical trace at all-one might imagine that language would have little to tell us about human prehistory.

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MERRITT RUHLEN, Ph.D., is one of the world's foremost linguists, and his work has been featured in nearly every recent major article on the history of language. Dr. Ruhlen received his Ph.D. in linguistics from Stanford University, and studied linguistics at the University of Paris, the University of Bucharest, and the University of Illinois. He has published more than forty articles, monographs, and books on various topics in linguistics.