This collection highlights a range of perspectives on the emerging body of research on evolutionary pragmatics, expanding the borders of language evolution rese

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Language has no counterpart in the animal world. Unique to Homo sapiens, it appears inseparable from human nature. But how, when and why did it emerge? The cont

This is a detailed diachronic study of a set of English pragmatic markers, providing insights concerning their syntactic and semantic development.