New essays on the origin of language
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Berlin :
New York : Mouton de Gruyter,
2001.
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| Series: | Trends in linguistics. Studies and monographs ;
133 |
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Table of Contents:
- 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.