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Renaissance philosopher Antoine Arnauld gave a detailed description of his idea of the origin of language in Port-Royal Grammar. According to Arnauld, people are social and rational by nature, and this urged them to create language as a means to communicate their ideas to others.
The Renaissance and Baroque period saw an intensified interest in linguistics, notably for the purpose of Bible translations by the Jesuits, and also related to philosophical speculation on philosophical languages and the origin of language.
Jan 1, 2013 · The Origins and the Evolution of Language. January 2013. In book: The Oxford handbook of the history of linguistics (pp.13-52) Publisher: Oxford University Press. Editors: Keith Allan....
Apr 26, 2018 · The expression language origins refers to theories pertaining to the emergence and development of language in human societies. Over the centuries, many theories have been put forward—and almost all of them have been challenged, discounted, and ridiculed. (See Where Does Language Come From?)
- Richard Nordquist
Written by a team of leading scholars, this volume provides an authoritative, chronological account of the history of the study of language from ancient times to the end of the 20th century (i.e., 'recent history', when modern linguistics greatly expanded).
Mar 11, 2017 · Language is both a cultural phenomenon and also the most salient distinguishing characteristic of modern Homo sapiens as a species. A recent discovery has been evidence for a relationship between inherited language impairment and a specific gene in humans: the so-called FOXP2 gene.
Themes of importance in the Greek tradition included the origin of language, parts-of-speech systems, the relation between language and thought, and the relation between the two aspects of word-signs – whether form and meaning are connected by nature (iconicity) or purely by convention (arbitrary).
