Re: What book(s) might you recommend for linguistics in general?

Brian M. Scott kirjoitti:

What do you think of Carstairs-McCarthy?

"Origins of Complex Language"? Haven't seen it but now that I checked, they seem to have in the U of Helsinki library. Only earlier today I visited there... pfft. You should've mentioned that earlier!

My favourites have been the article collections they make after the Evolution of language conferences. -- I was supposed to have at least two of them, but now that I glanced through my bookshelf I saw only one (Chris Knight, Michael Studdert-Kennedy & James R. Hurford, eds., The Evolutionary Emergence of Language, Cambridge UP 2000). Hope I haven't inadvertently donated the other book to the U of Tampere Finnish department :-)

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