Origins of language

See the excellent book review made by Michael Corballis in American Scientist, Volume 96, January February 2008

Kristine Kenneally, "The First Word: The Serach for the origin of Language", Viking, 2007

The book is a presentation of the current state research on this complex issue of the origins of language, which was banned from discussions by the linguistic Society in Paris in 1866 and then by the London Philological Sociaty in 1872 and was only revived in the 1970s.

Kristine Kenneally's book is based upon the discussions held in an international symposium on the evolution of language. This symposium was held in Stony Brook NY, in 2005.

Michael Corballis, who is from the University of Aukland, is the author of another excellent book: about language: From Hand to Mouth: The Origins of Language", Princeton University Press, 2002

Paul