Jim Hurford's Home Page

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Current activities and interests

	I've retired from my full-time position. What I still do (and have more time to do) is Support the Research Unit in Language Evolution and Computation Teach a one-semester course on Origins and Evolution of Language Help to organize the series of International Conferences on the Evolution of Language. Write a shorter, more popular book on the origins of language.		Publications and research Books Articles Reviews (Of Tomasello & Bates (eds) , Corballis , Lieberman , King (ed.), Sampson, Deacon, Lock & Peters (eds)., Aitchison.) Commentaries Workshops and Symposia Voorbij het magische getal 4, a newspaper article by Berthold van Maris HTML version; PDF version with a pretty picture of Utrecht.
	Click here for the current term's Linguistic Circle programme.	Language at Edinburgh lunches

The Flip Side

DESPERANTO, a Linguistic Sci_Fi story. As one reader said, "less of a story than an idea", but you might get a chuckle out of the idea.