Review published In:
ITL - International Journal of Applied LinguisticsVol. 163 (2012) ► pp.43–50
Book review
The genesis of syntactic complexity, Diachrony, ontogeny, neurocognition, evolution. Givón, T.. , (). . , John Benjamins, 2009. .
Reviewed by
References (31)
Aitchison, J.. 1991. Language change: progress or decay? Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Bickerton, D. 1990. Language and species. Chicago: Chicago University Press. 
1995. Language and human behavior. Seattle: University of Washington Press.
Boland, A. 2006. Aspect, tense and modality: theory, typology, acquisition. 21 vols. LOT: LOT Dissertation Series.
Botha, R. & C.. Knight. 2009a. The Prehistory of Language. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Botha, R & C. Knight. 2009b. The Cradle of Language. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Carstairs-McCarthy, A. 2000. 'Origins of language'. In: M. Aronoff & J. Rees-Miller (eds.), The handbook of linguistics. Oxford: Blackwell. 1–18.
Christiansen, M. & S. Kirby (eds.). 2003. Language evolution. Oxford: Oxford University Press
Dahl, Ö. 2004. The growth and maintenance of linguistic complexity. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
Deutscher, G. 2000. Syntactic change in Akkadian. The evolution of sentential complementation. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Evans, N. & S.. Levinson. 2009. The myth of language universals: language diversity and its importance for cognitive science. Behavior and Brain Sciences 321:429–492.
Everett, D. 2005. Cultural constraints on grammar and cognition in Pirahä: another look at the design features of human language. Current Anthropology 761: 621–646.
Givón, T. (1979). On understanding grammar. New York: Academic Press.
Givon, T. & B.. Malle (eds.). 2002. The evolution of language out of pre-language. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
Hauser, M., N. Chomsky & W.T. Fitch. 2002. 'The faculty of language: What is it, who has it, how did it evolve?' Science 2981:1569–1579.
Heine, B. 2003. 'Grammaficalization'. In: Joseph & Janda (eds.), 575–601.
Heine, B. & T. Kuteva. 2007. The genesis of grammar. A reconstruction. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Hurford, J., M. Studdert-Kennedy, C. Knight (eds.). 1998. Approaches to the evolution of language: social and cognitive bases. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Joseph, B. & R.. Janda (eds.). 2003. The handbook of historical linguistics. Oxford: Blackwell.
Knight, C., M. Studdert-Kennedy & J. Hurford (eds.). 2000. The evolutionary emergence of language: social function and the origins of linguistic form. New York: Cambridge University Press.
Miestamo, M. 2008. 'Grammatical complexity in cross-linguistic perspective'. In: M. Miestamo, K. Sinnemäki & F. Karlsson (eds.). 2008. Language complexity. Typology contact, change. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. 23–41.
Perkins, R.D. 1992. Deixis, grammar and culture. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
Sampson, G.. 2009. A linguistic axion challenged. In: Sampson et al.., 2–18.
Sampson, G., D. Gill & P.. Trudgill (eds.). 2009. Language complexity as an evolving variable. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Tallerman, M. & K. R. Gibson (eds.). 2011. The Oxford handbook of language evolution. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Tallerman, M. (ed.). 2005. Language origins: perspectives from evolution. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
2007. 'Did our ancestors speak a holistic protolanguage?'. Lingua 1171:579–604.
Traugott, E. 2003. 'Constructions in grammatcalizafion'. In: Joseph & Janda (eds.). 624–647.
Traugott, E. & R.. Dasher. 2002. Regularity in semantic change. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Trudgill, P. 2010. Contact and sociolinguistic typology. In: R. Hickey (ed.), The handbook of language contact. Oxford: Blackwell. 299–319.
Wray, A. 2002. The transition to language. Oxford: Oxford University Press.