Linguistic diversity and language evolution

Hammarström, Harald

doi:10.1093/jole/lzw002

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Linguistic diversity and language evolution

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Hammarström, Harald
Language and Cognition Department, MPI for Psycholinguistics, Max Planck Society;
INTERACT, MPI for Psycholinguistics, Max Planck Society;

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Hammarström, H. (2016). Linguistic diversity and language evolution. Journal of Language Evolution, 1, 19-29. doi:10.1093/jole/lzw002.

Cite as: https://hdl.handle.net/11858/00-001M-0000-0029-2F3E-C

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What would your ideas about language evolution be if there was only one language left on earth? Fortunately, our investigation need not be that impoverished. In the present article, we survey the state of knowledge regarding the kinds of language found among humans, the language inventory, population sizes, time depth, grammatical variation, and other relevant issues that a theory of language evolution should minimally take into account