Search Results for: The Genesis Of Language

Books about The Genesis of Language; a Psycholinguistic Approach

Books about The Genesis of Language

Papers on Creolization, second language acquisition, contact stimulated marginal languages and theoretical orientations in Creole studies.

The Michif language -- spoken by descendants of French Canadian fur traders and Cree Indians in western Canada -- is considered an "impossible language" since it uses French for nouns and Cree for verbs, and comprises two different sets of grammatical rules. Bakker uses historical research and fieldwork data to

Ernst Cassirer’s philosophy of culture has been much discussed in recent years. However, it remains unclear how it evolved from his older theory of knowledge. This study deals with this question on the basis of Cassirer’s ‘disposition’ of a ‘philosophy of the symbolic’, reconstructed here for the first time. This