Linguistic diversity and language evolution

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Abstract

What would your ideas about language evolution be if there was only one language left on earth? Fortunately, our investigation need not be that impoverished. In the present article, we survey the state of knowledge regarding the kinds of language found among humans, the language inventory, population sizes, time depth, grammatical variation, and other relevant issues that a theory of language evolution should minimally take into account.

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Hammarström, H. (2016). Linguistic diversity and language evolution. Journal of Language Evolution, 1(1), 19–29. https://doi.org/10.1093/jole/lzw002

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