New Essays on the Origin of Language /

New Essays on the Origin of Language / / ed. by Jürgen Trabant, Sean Ward.

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The contributions to this volume reflect the state of the art in the renewed discussion on the origin of language. Some of the most important specialists in the field - life scientists and linguists - primarily examine two aspects of the question: the origin of the language faculty and the evolution...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Backlist Complete English Language 2000-2014 PART1
MitwirkendeR:
Aitchison, Jean,
Bierwisch, Manfred,
Comrie, Bernard,
Dor, Daniel,
Heeschen, Volker,
Hurford, James R.,
Jablonka, Eva,
Klein, Wolfgang,
Lieberman, Philip,
Meschonnic, Henri,
Ruhlen, Merritt,
Szathmáry, Eörs,
Trabant, Jürgen,
HerausgeberIn:
Trabant, Jürgen,
Ward, Sean,
Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2011]
©2001
Year of Publication:2011
Edition:Reprint 2011
Language:English
Series:Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM] , 133
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Physical Description:1 online resource (258 p.) :; 1 plate
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Table of Contents:
  • I-IV
  • Contents
  • Introduction: New perspectives on an old academic question
  • 1. Biological aspects of the question
  • On the subcortical bases of the evolution of language
  • The 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 language
  • 3. 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

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