PRODUCT DESCRIPTION
by Alexey Koshelev (Author)
In On the Genesis of Thought and Language, linguist Alexey Koshelev explores fundamental questions of how human concepts arise in a child, why concepts appear in a child before words, the genesis of language, and why there are so many languages.
Author Biography
Alexey Koshelev is the author of four books, Cognitive Analysis of Universal Human Concepts (in Russian, Moscow, 2015), Essays on the Evolutionary-Synthetic Theory of Language (in Russian, Moscow, 2017), Essays on the Evolutionary-Synthetic Theory of Language (in English, Moscow & Boston, 2019), On the genesis of thought and language: The genesis of concepts and propositions; Aristotle and Chomsky on language; The impact of culture on language (in Russian, Moscow, 2019) and over fifty papers on cognitive semantics, theoretical linguistics, lexical and grammatical polysemy, the history of linguistic theories, the theory of humor and laughter, human locomotion, general theory of development and related subjects.
