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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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Givón, Talmy, 1936-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins Pub. Co., ©2002.
Subjects:
Biolinguistics.
Linguistics.
Linguistics
Biolinguistique.
Linguistique.
linguistics.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > General.
Biolinguistics
Evolutionstheorie
Systemtheorie
Sprachliche Universalien
Motivierung > Linguistik
Funktionalismus > Linguistik
Biolinguistik
Sprachwandel
Sprachvariante
Biolinguïstiek.
Taalgenese.
Linguagem.
Biologia.
Lingüística.
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Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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