Books by Jim Hurford

As author

2014 The Origins of Language: A Slim Guide, Oxford University Press.
See reviews of The Origins of Language: A Slim Guide here:
2011 (2012 in USA) The Origins of Grammar: Language in the Light of Evolution, Oxford University Press, in three parts:
Part I: Pre-Grammar, Part II: What Evolved, Part III: What Happened
Interview with Chris Cummins about The Origins of Grammar on the New Books in Language website.
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2007 The Origins of Meaning: Language in the Light of Evolution, Oxford University Press.
Interview with Chris Cummins about The Origins of Meaning on the New Books in Language website.
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French translation in progress, to be published by Editions d'Ithaque.
1994 Grammar: a Student's Guide, xv+271pp. Cambridge University Press. Shortlisted (1 of 4) for British Association for Applied Linguistics 1995 book prize. 34,160 copies sold by Spring 2008.
1987 Language and Number: the emergence of a cognitive system, (xii + 322pp.) Basil Blackwell, Oxford. Scanned PDF of whole book. (Reviewed in Language (1990), Lingua (1989), Journal of Pragmatics (1989), reprinted 1990, went out of print in 1995, sold 979 copies)
1983 (with Brendan Heasley) Semantics: a Coursebook , (vii + 291pp.) Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. (1st edition paperback only, often reprinted. 44,513 copies sold by Spring 2008. Spanish translation, Curso de Semantica, published 1988 by Visor Distribuciones, Tomas Breton, Madrid. Hebrew translation, Semantika: Prakei Yesod, published 1988 by Dekel Publishers. Portuguese translation Curso de Semântica published 2004 by ULBRA (Universidade Luterana do Brasil).)
- 2007, 2nd edition (with Brendan Heasley and Michael Smith), 1,601 copies sold by Spring 2008. Translations into Japanese and Arabic are in preparation.
1975 The Linguistic Theory of Numerals, (293pp.) Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. (Reviewed in Language, York Papers in Linguistics, Studia Linguistica, Journal of Linguistics; hardback went out of print in 1992, sold 1,277+ copies.)
- 2010, paperback reprint

As editor

2000 The Evolutionary Emergence of Language: Social function and the origins of linguistic form, edited by Chris Knight, Michael Studdert-Kennedy and James R Hurford. Cambridge University Press. (1,850 copies sold by Spring 2008.)
Review, by Andrei Popescu-Belis in the Linguist List.

1998 Approaches to the Evolution of Language: social and cognitive bases, edited by James R Hurford, Michael Studdert-Kennedy and Chris Knight. Cambridge University Press. (2,553 copies sold by Spring 2008.)
Reviewed by Kathleen Gibson in Journal of Linguistics (2000), 36:172-175.

As translator

2006 Self-Organization in the Evolution of Speech , Oxford University Press. Translation from the French of Pierre-Yves Oudeyer's L'auto-organisation de la parole.