Books by Jim Hurford

As author

• 2007 The Origins of Meaning (Volume 1 of Language in the Light of Evolution), Oxford University Press.
  Reviews by:
  Dean Falk, in Nature,
  Roy Harris, in THES.
  Derek Bickerton, in Language and Communication
  John Dance, in Journal of Consciousness Studies
  Jen Maceyko, in Science and Spirit
  Grover Hudson in The Linguist List
  Sue Browning, of the Society for Editors and Proofreader (online review)
  Teresa Bejarano, to appear in Teorema
  Nick Enfield in TLS (scanned PDF)
  Michael Corballis in Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development.
  Martin Edwardes in Journal of Evolutionary Psychology.
  ``Wow, super sciency. Interesting, but my head was spinning. Good for scientists, philosophers, and very smart people.'' (Jen)
  
  
• 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 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, went out of print in 1992, sold 1,277+ copies.)

• 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