Editing Origin of language (section)

=== History of research ===
{{Main|Evolutionary linguistics}}
Modern linguistics did not begin until the late 18th century, and the [[Romanticism|Romantic]] or [[Animism|animist]] theses of [[Johann Gottfried Herder]] and [[Johann Christoph Adelung]] remained influential well into the 19th century. The question of language origin seemed inaccessible to methodical approaches, and in 1866 the [[Linguistic Society of Paris]] famously banned all discussion of the origin of language, deeming it to be an unanswerable problem. An increasingly systematic approach to [[historical linguistics]] developed in the course of the 19th century, reaching its culmination in the [[Neogrammarian]] school of [[Karl Brugmann]] and others.{{Citation needed|date=January 2014}}

However, scholarly interest in the question of the origin of language has only gradually been revived from the 1950s on (and then controversially) with ideas such as [[universal grammar]], [[mass comparison]] and [[glottochronology]].{{Citation needed|date=January 2014}}

The "origin of language" as a subject in its own right emerged from studies in [[neurolinguistics]], [[psycholinguistics]] and [[human evolution]]. The ''[[Linguistic Bibliography]]'' introduced "Origin of language" as a separate heading in 1988, as a sub-topic of psycholinguistics. Dedicated research institutes of [[evolutionary linguistics]] are a recent phenomenon, emerging only in the 1990s.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Meena |first=Ram Lakhan |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=y1Y7EAAAQBAJ&q=Dedicated+research+institutes+of+evolutionary+linguistics+are+a+recent+phenomenon,+emerging+only+in+the+1990s |title=Current Trends of Applied Linguistics |date=3 August 2021 |publisher=K.K. Publications |access-date=9 January 2022}}</ref>