New essays on the origin of language /
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Otros Autores: | , |
Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
Publicado: |
Berlin :
New York : Mouton de Gruyter,
2001.
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Colección: | Trends in linguistics. Studies and monographs ;
133. |
Temas: | |
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 “instinct�: 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