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New essays on the origin of language /

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Trabant, Jürgen (Editor ), Ward, Sean, 1963- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berlin : New York : Mouton de Gruyter, 2001.
Colección:Trends in linguistics. Studies and monographs ; 133.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: New perspectives on an old academic question
  • 1. Biological aspects of the question
  • On the subcortical bases of the evolution of language
  • Origin of the human language faculty: the language amoeba hypothesis
  • 2. The first language
  • The apparent paradox of language evolution: can Universal Grammar be explained by adaptive selection?
  • Elementary forms of linguistic organisation
  • From potential to realisation: an episode in the origin of language
  • Protothought had no logical names
  • The birth of rules
  • How language changed the genes: toward an explicit account of the evolution of language3. Beyond biolinguistics
  • The narration “instinctâ€?: signalling behaviour, communication, and the selective value of storytelling
  • Taxonomic controversies in the twentieth century
  • The origin of origins: a play in five acts, with a prologue im Himmel and an epilogue auf der Erde
  • References
  • Index