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This book, The Origin of Language: Tracing the Evolution of the Mother Tongue, originally published in 1994 by John Wiley & Sons, was written in a more popular style, accessible to an educated general audience, than the more scholarly and academic tome of a similar title, On the Origin of Languages: Studies in Linguistic Taxonomy, published the same year. In The Origin of Language Ruhlen laid out the principles of linguistic genetic classifica...

A poco più di 100 anni da quando la Società di Linguistica di Parigi mise ufficialmente fine alle discussioni, spesso stravaganti, in materia, l'ipotesi di un'origine unica del linguaggio, di una lingua madre cui far risalire i vari ceppi linguistici e la babele di idiomi dei popoli del mondo è tornata al centro dell'interesse. Al punto che oggi quella screditata congettura appare la più fondata e ricca di sviluppi come dimostra questo libro.

Arguing that the prevailing conception of historical linguistics is flawed, the author presents a series of linguistic studies which demonstrate that all extant human languages share a common origin.

A definitive reference work on the classification of human languages with state-of-the-art freshness and great clarity."--Diachronica "It is interesting to read, is well documented and thorough, and is useful as a work of reference."--Modern Language Review

Twentieth-century Indo-Europeanists (though not their nineteenth-century forebears) have confused the issue of genetic affinity, which derives from classification, with such traditional concerns of historical linguistics as reconstruction and sound correspondences. Once it is recognized that taxonomy, or classification, must precede these traditional concerns, the apparent conflict between the traditional view and that of Joseph Greenberg and ...