Biological foundations and origin of syntax
By: edited by Derek Bickerton and Eörs Szathmáry.
Contributors: Bickerton, Derek.; Szathmáry, Eörs.
Series: Strüngmann Forum reports
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Cambridge, MA
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780262013567
Subjects: Grammar, Comparative and general -- Syntax -- Congresses; Biolinguistics -- Congresses
Genres: Congresses
Notes: Papers presented at the Forum held July 13-18, 2008, in Frankfurt, Germany.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Syntax for non-syntacticians :  a brief primer / Derek Bickerton; title: The biological background of syntax evolution / Anna Fedor ... [et al.]; title: Functional neuroimaging and the logic of brain operations : methodologies, caveats, and fundamental examples from language research / Balázs Gulyás; title: Syntactics. Some elements of syntactic computations / Luigi Rizzi; title: The adaptive approach to grammar / T. Givón; title: Fundamental syntacti phenomena and their putative relation to the brain / Edith Kaan; title: What kinds of syntactic phenomena must biologists, neurobiologists, and computer scientists try to explain and replicate? / Maggie Tallerman ... [et al.]; title: Evolution. Possible precursors of syntactic components in other species / Austin T. Hilliard and Stephanie A. White; title: What can developmental language impairment tell us about the genetic bases of syntax? / Dorothy V. M. Bishop; title: What are the possible biological and genetic foundations for syntactic phenomena?