Review of Carstairs-McCarthy, Andrew 'The origins of complex language': Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1999, pp. vi + 260

William Glass Noble

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Review of Carstairs-McCarthy, Andrew 'The origins of complex language': Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1999, pp. vi + 260

William Glass Noble

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There are three features of contemporary languages that stand in need of explanation because, the author claims, they are not inevitable. These features are: large vocabulary, duality of patterning (the analysability of utterance into morphemes and phonemes), and the distinctness between the noun phrase and the sentence.

Original language	English
Pages	249-250
Volume	80
No.	2
Specialist publication	Australasian Journal of Philosophy
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1080/724051020
Publication status	Published - 2002

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Linguistic Anthropology

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