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The Origins of Grammar : an Anthropological Perspective.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London :
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC,
2010.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Intro; Contents; Acknowledgements; 1 Why All the Fuss?; The Problem of Brainpower; Two Legs, Two Hands; Making Tools; Hunting and Culture; Language: the final frontier?; The Genetic Problem of Language; What Is Language for?; Mapping the Journey; 2 The Story So Far; Language Is Tool Use; Language Is Play; Language Is a Signal of Fitness; Language Is Gestural; Language Is Cognition; Language Is Social Construction; Language Just Is; 3 The Heavy Hand of Generative Linguistics; Linguistic Structure; Extending Structure; Principles and Parameters; Small Is Beautiful; Generative Origins.
- Is Generative Grammar an Inimical Environment for Language Origins?4 Other Views on Language; A System of Functions; Systemic Functional Grammar; Other Views on Functional Grammar; Grammar without Tiers?; Linear Grammars; Functionalism and the Origins of Grammar; 5 Itâ#x80;#x99;s All in the Mind; A Short History of Cognitive Linguistics; The Nature of Cognitive Linguistics; Embodiment; The Modularity Debate; The Nature of Cognitive Grammar; Cognitive Linguistics and Language Origins; 6 Being Human; Physical Differences; Manual Dexterity Is Social Dexterity?; Working Together; The Problem of Culture.
- The Costs of ReproductionBeating the Cheats; Making Models; 7 The Weirdness of Self; Planning and Modelling; Human Social Models; The Self and Language; Selfishness and Self-awareness; Four Selves; Awareness of Self; 8 How Did We Come to Be Human?; Altruistic Punishment; Metaphor in Cognition; THE GROUP IS AN ENTITY; Where Does the GROUP Come from?; Altruistic Punishment as an Engine of Socialization; THE GROUP IS AN ENTITY: building social structures; THE GROUP IS AN ENTITY: an ancient metaphor?; What Happened, and When?; 9 How Did We Come to Use Grammar?; Grammaticalization.
- Grammaticalization and Language OriginsOverture and Beginners, Please; Not Required at the Origin of Grammar; Becoming Complex; From Non-grammar to Grammar; 10 What Nonhumans Tell Us about Being Human; Animals and Grammar; Primate, Know Thyself; Multiple Intelligences; Accommodating Others; Empathy; Not about Language?; 11 What Young Humans Tell Us about Being Human; Children and Language Origins; Children and Co-operation; Children and Selfhood; Children and Language; 12 What Time Tells Us about Being Human; Getting Tense; Doing Other Things with Time; Adding Depth.
- Time, Uncertainty and FictionBecoming Time-aware; Three Time Points, Three Voices?; Time and Being Human; 13 The Evolution of Grammar; Basic Communication; Social Modelling; Uttering Language; What Language Did Next; Becoming Myself; Are There Grammar Universals?; And Finally; References; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; X; Y; Z.