Alan Barnard

List of John Benjamins publications in which Alan Barnard is involved.

Article

Barnard, Alan 2013 Cognitive and social aspects of language origins New Perspectives on the Origins of Language, Lefebvre, Claire, Bernard Comrie and Henri Cohen (eds.), pp. 53–72 | Article

Theorists of the origins of language seem to assume that the only function of language is communication. Or that everything that language is and does can be explained as if it were simply an advanced form of communication. In fact, though, virtually all languages are far more complex than they need… read more