New essays on the origin of language

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Další autoři: Trabant, Jürgen, Ward, Sean, 1963-
Médium: Elektronický zdroj E-kniha
Jazyk:angličtina
Vydáno: Berlin : New York : Mouton de Gruyter, 2001.
Edice:Trends in linguistics. Studies and monographs ; 133
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  • Machine generated contents note: Introduction: New perspectives on an old academic question
  • Jiirgen Trabant 1
  • 1. Biological aspects of the question
  • On the subcortical bases of the evolution of language
  • Philip Lieberman 21
  • Origin of the human language faculty: the language amoeba hypothesis
  • Eors Szathmdry 41
  • 2. The first language
  • The apparent paradox of language evolution: can Universal Grammar be
  • explained by adaptive selection?
  • Manfred Bierwisch 55
  • Elementary forms of linguistic organisation
  • Wolfgang Klein 81
  • From potential to realisation: an episode in the origin of language
  • Bernard Comrie 103
  • Protothought had no logical names
  • James R. Hurford 119
  • The birth of rules
  • Jean Aitchison 133
  • How language changed the genes: toward an explicit account of the
  • evolution of language
  • Daniel Dor and Eva Jablonka 149
  • 3. Beyond biolinguistics
  • The narration "instinct": signalling behaviour, communication,
  • and the selective value of storytelling
  • Volker Heeschen 179
  • Taxonomic controversies in the twentieth century
  • Merritt Ruhlen 197
  • The origin of origins: a play in five acts, with a prologue
  • im Himmel and an epilogue auf der Erde
  • Henri Meschonnic 215
  • References 229
  • Index 257.