'Ways to Protolanguage 3', Wroclaw, Poland
12 May 2013 - 12 May 2013
Poland
An event entitled 'Ways to Protolanguage 3' will take place from 25 to 26 May 2013 in Wroclaw, Poland.
A proto-language (alternatively known as a parent language, or common ancestor) in the tree model of historical linguistics is a hypothetical, or reconstructed, typically extinct language. A number of attested - or documented - known languages are believed to descend from such languages, either by evolution or by slow modification into languages that form a family. Humans have language. It is hypothesized that the common ancestor of chimpanzees and humans did not. Evolutionary linguists therefore have to explain how the gap between a non-linguistic ancestor and our linguistic species was bridged.
The conference will provide a forum on the evolution of language to achieve a multidisciplinary perspective on the range of currently available evidence relevant to early language evolution.For further information, please visit:
http://www.wsf.edu.pl/58354.xml(opens in new window)
A proto-language (alternatively known as a parent language, or common ancestor) in the tree model of historical linguistics is a hypothetical, or reconstructed, typically extinct language. A number of attested - or documented - known languages are believed to descend from such languages, either by evolution or by slow modification into languages that form a family. Humans have language. It is hypothesized that the common ancestor of chimpanzees and humans did not. Evolutionary linguists therefore have to explain how the gap between a non-linguistic ancestor and our linguistic species was bridged.
The conference will provide a forum on the evolution of language to achieve a multidisciplinary perspective on the range of currently available evidence relevant to early language evolution.For further information, please visit:
http://www.wsf.edu.pl/58354.xml(opens in new window)