Unravelling the Evolution of Language / / Rudolf P. Botha.
What blocks the way to a better understanding of language evolution, it is widely held, is above all a paucity of factual evidence. Not so, argues Unravelling the Evolution of Language . This book finds the main obstacle, instead, in a poverty of a specific kind of theory-restrictive theory. It show...
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| Superior document: | Language & Communication Library ; 19 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Leiden;, Boston : : BRILL,, 2003. |
| Year of Publication: | 2003 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Language & Communication Library ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (256 pages) |
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Table of Contents:
- Part 1. Linguistic entities involved in evolution: language and the language faculty
- the formal grammatical system
- language in multiple (dis)guises
- theory of linguistic entities
- Part 2. Processes of language evolution: co-optation in language evolution
- preadaptation in language evolution
- natural selection in language evolution
- theories of evolutionary processes
- Part 3. Evidence and argumentation: testability-a litmus test? indirect evidence
- non-empirical argumentation
- plausible evolutionary stories
- theories of the substance of science
- capstone.