| 英文摘要 |
When one hears the word ''evolution'', one typically thinks of biological change, especially these days when much is being written to honor the memory of Charles Darwin, who died a century ago. Yet in a recent article by a leading biologist, we find an enthusiastic acknowledgment of evolutionary work done in another field: on language. I quote from Lewis Thomas (1981): ''Long before the time when the biologists, led by Darwin and Wallace, were constructing the tree of evolution and the origin of species, the linguists were hard at work on the evolution of language. |
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