The Origin of Language
Subtitle: Tracing the Evolution of the Mother Tongue
Publisher: Wiley
Published: August 1996
Language: eng
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780471159636
First sentence: 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.