Thursday 20 October 2016

Phylogenesis

Halliday & Matthiessen (1999: 618):
There is no point asking whether the ideation base of our technologised natural languages necessarily had to evolve the way it did. But it is extreme pertinent to ask, given the enormous demands now being made on both the material and semiotic resources of the human species, what the options are for the way it may evolve in future.