New essays on the origin of language / edited by Jürgen Trabant, Sean Ward.

Other author Trabant, Jürgen.
Other author Ward, Sean, 1963-
Format Electronic
Publication InfoBerlin ; [Hawthorne], N.Y. : Mouton de Gruyter,
Descriptionvi, 258 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
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SeriesTrends in linguistics. Studies and monographs ; 133
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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [229]-255) and index.
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LCCN 2001034295
ISBN3110170256 (alk. paper)

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