The Evolutionary Emergence of Language
Evidence and Inference
Edited by Rudolf Botha and Martin Everaert
Author Information
Rudolf Botha is Professor of General Linguistics at the University of Stellenbosch, and a Fellow of the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study. His books include Form and Meaning in Word Formation: A Study of Afrikaans Reduplication (CUP 1988), Unravelling the Evolution of Language (Elsevier 2003) and, co-edited with C. Knight, The Cradle of Language and The Prehistory of Language (both OUP 2009).
Martin Everaert is Professor of Linguistics and Director of the Institute of Linguistics at the University of Utrecht. His research interests include syntactic theory and the lexicon-syntax interface and his books The Syntax of Reflexivization, (Dordrecht: Foris 1986) and, as co-editor, The Unaccusativity Puzzle (OUP 2004), The Blackwell Companion to Syntax (2007), and The Theta Sytsem (OUP 2012).
Contributors:
Stephen R. Anderson, Dorothy R. Diebold Professor of Linguistics, Psychology and Cognitive Science at Yale University.
Rudolf Botha, Emeritus Professor of General Linguistics at the University of Stellenbosch and Honorary Professor of Linguistics at Utrecht University
Rebecca L. Cann, Professor of Genetics at the University of Hawaii, Manoa
Morten H. Christiansen, Professor in the Department of Psychology and Co-Director of the Cognitive Science Program at Cornell University and External Professor at the Santa Fe Institute.
Hélène Cochet, postdoctoral fellow in Psychology, University of St Andrews.
Frederick L. Coolidge, Professor of Psychology at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs.
Karl C. Diller, formerly Professor of Linguistics at the University of New Hampshire.
Martin Everaert, Professor of Linguistics at Utrecht University.
Peter Gärdenfors, Professor of Cognitive Science at Lund University
Kathleen R. Gibson, Professor Emerita of Neurobiology and Anatomy, University of Texas Medical School, Houston
SUSAN GOLDIN-MEADOW is the Beardsley Ruml Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago.
Alan Langus, postdoctoral fellow at the International School of Advanced Studies, Trieste
Alban Lemasson, Maître de conferences in the Laboratory of Animal and Human Ethology at the University of Rennes 1
Katharine MacDonald, postdoctoral researcher in archaeology, University of Leiden.
Marina Nespor is a postdoctoral researcher at the Language, Cognition and Development Lab, SISSA
Karim Ouattara, lecturer in Zoology and Animal Biology at Cocody-Abidjan University
Karenleigh A. Overmann, graduate student in the Department of Psychology at the University of Colorado Springs.
Asli Ozyurek, Professor of Linguistics at Radboud University Nijmegen and a researcher at the Center for Language Studies, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, and the Donders Center for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour.
Jana Petri, PhD student at the Freie Universität Berlin in the Scharff Laboratory.
Wil Roebroeks, Professor of Palaeolithic Archaeology at Leiden University.
Constance Scharff, Professor of Animal Behaviour at the Freie Universität Berlin.
Ann Senghas, Tow Associate Professor of Psychologhy at Barnard College.
Maggie Tallerman, Professor of Linguistics at Newcastle University, UK.
Jacques Vauclair, Professor of Developmental and Comparative Psychology at the University of Provence
Thomas Wynn, Professor of Anthropology at the University of Colorado, Colorado Spring.
Klaus Zuberbuehler, Professor of Psychology at the University of St Andrews.
