Robbins Burling (1926–2021)

Autore di The Talking Ape

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Robbins Burling is Professor Emeritus at the University of Michigan, where he taught linguistics and anthropology from 1963 until his retirement in 1995. He is the author of a number of books including The Talking Ape: How Language Evolved (Oxford University Press, 2007). Since the early grades, he mostra altro has been a hopelessly poor speller. mostra meno

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Opere di Robbins Burling

Popolari Recenti

The Talking Ape (2005) 96 copie

Man's Many Voices: Language in its Cultural Context (1970) 33 copie

Hill farms and padi fields; life in mainland Southeast Asia (1965) 30 copie

Patterns of Language: Structure, Variation, Change (1992) 26 copie

English in Black and White (1973) 15 copie

Learning a Field Language (1985) 9 copie

Sounding right (1982) 6 copie

Proto Lolo-Burmese 5 copie

Rengsanggri; family and kinship in a Garo village (1963) 5 copie

The strong women of Modhupur (1997) 4 copie

A Garo grammar 3 copie

Passage of Power: Studies in Political Succession (Studies in anthropology) (1974) 2 copie

The language of the Modhupur Mandi (Garo). Vol. 1: Grammar (2004) 2 copie

Spellbound: Untangling English Spelling (2016) 2 copie

COGNITION AND COMPONENTIAL ANALYSIS: GOD'S TRUTH OR HOCUS-POCUS? SOME COMMENTS ON FORMAL ANALYSIS OF GRAMMATICAL… (1968) 1 copia

Den talande apan : hur språket uppkom (2007) 1 copia

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Opere correlate

The Oxford Handbook of Language Evolution (2012) — Collaboratore — 20 copie

North East Indian linguistics, volume 3 (2011) — Collaboratore — 2 copie

North East Indian linguistics, volume 4 (2012) — Collaboratore — 1 copia

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Informazioni generali

Nome canonico: Burling, Robbins
Data di nascita: 1926-04-18
Data di morte: 2021-01-02
Sesso: male
Nazionalità: USA
Luogo di nascita: Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
Luogo di residenza: Michigan, USA
Pennsylvania, USA
New Haven, Connecticut, USA
Istruzione: Yale College (AB|1950)
Harvard University (PhD ∙ Anthropology ∙ 1958)
Attività lavorative: anthropologist
sociolinguist
university professor emeritus
Organizzazioni: University of Michigan
University of Pennsylvania

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The Talking Ape: How Language Evolved (Studies in… di Robbins Burling

Spoken language doesn't leave a trace archaeologists can uncover, and because of that if you want to explain how language got started and evolved what remains is to prove if a certain theory holds together when questioned against current knowledge about evolution. Burlings makes it very clear that he deals in hypotheses but he puts a great deal of effort in showing strengths and weaknesses both, in his own theories and other's equally.

The result is a valid working hypothesis for how language evolved.

I do think he misses some points, but on a larger scale those are not important.

For those interested in the subject the book is well worth the effort.

I have written a more extensive review here - http://reconsidering.wordpress.com/2009/10/03/review-the-talking-ape-how-languag...… (altro)