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Bio-linguistics : the Santa Barbara lectures /

Is human language an evolutionary adaptation? Is linguistics a natural science? These questions have bedeviled philosophers, philologists and linguists from Plato through Chomsky. Prof. Givón suggests that the answers fall naturally within an integrated study of living organisms. In this new work,...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Givón, Talmy, 1936-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins Pub. Co., ©2002.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Language as a biological adaptation
  • The bounds of generativity and the adaptive basis of variation
  • The demise of competence
  • Human language as an evolutionary product
  • An evolutionary account of language processing rates
  • The diachronic foundations of language universals
  • The neuro-cognitive interpretation of "context" : anticipating other minds
  • The grammar of the narrator's perspective in narrative fiction
  • The society of intimates
  • On the ontology of academic negativity.