The Cradle of Language
Edited by Rudolf Botha and Chris Knight
Author Information
Rudolf Botha is Emeritus Professor of General Linguistics at the University of Stellenbosch, Honorary Professor of Linguistics at Utrecht University, and a Fellow of the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study (2001-02 & 2005-06). His books include Form and Meaning in Word Formation: A Study of Afrikaans Reduplication (CUP 1988), Challenging Chomsky: The Generative Garden Game (Blackwell 1989), and Unravelling the Evolution of Language (Elsevier 2003).
Chris Knight is Professor of Anthropology at the University of East London. Best known for his 1991 book, 'Blood Relations: Menstruation and the origins of culture', he helped initiate the Evolution of Language (evolang) series of international conferences and has published widely on the evolutionary emergence of language and symbolic culture. His next book will be The Human Conspiracy: Speech, deception and the selfish gene.
Contributors:
Rudolf Botha, University of Stellenbosch
Chris Knight, University of East London
Alan Barnard, University of Edinburgh
Rebecca L. Cann, University of Hawaii at Manoa
Bernard Comrie, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
Michael Cysouw, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
Dan Dediu, University of Edinburgh
Francesco d'Errico, University Bordeaux 1
Karl Diller, University of Hawaii at Manoa
Benoît Dubreuil, Université du Québec à Montréal
W. Tecumseh Fitch, University of St. Andrews
Tom Güldemann, University of Zurich
Chris Henshilwood, University of Bergen
James Hurford, University of Edinburgh
Jerome Lewis, University College London
Camilla Power, University of East London
Wil Roebroeks, Leiden University
Bonny Sands, Northern Arizona University
Marian Vanhaeren, University College London
Alexander Verpoorte, Leiden University
Ian Watts