New essays on the origin of language
By: edited by Jürgen Trabant, Sean Ward.
Contributors: Trabant, Jürgen.; Ward, Sean, 1963-
Series: Trends in linguistics.; 133
Publisher: Mouton de Gruyter
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Berlin; [Hawthorne], N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 258
Subjects: Language and languages -- Origin.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [229]-255) and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: Introduction: New perspectives on an old academic question; title: Jiirgen Trabant 1; title: 1. Biological aspects of the question; title: On the subcortical bases of the evolution of language; title: Philip Lieberman 21; title: Origin of the human language faculty: the language amoeba hypothesis; title: Eors Szathmdry 41; title: 2. The first language; title: The apparent paradox of language evolution: can Universal Grammar be; title: explained by adaptive selection?; title: Manfred Bierwisch 55; title: Elementary forms of linguistic organisation; title: Wolfgang Klein 81; title: From potential to realisation: an episode in the origin of language; title: Bernard Comrie 103; title: Protothought had no logical names; title: James R. Hurford 119; title: The birth of rules; title: Jean Aitchison 133; title: How language changed the genes: toward an explicit account of the; title: evolution of language; title: Daniel Dor and Eva Jablonka 149; title: 3. Beyond biolinguistics; title: The narration "instinct": signalling behaviour, communication,; title: and the selective value of storytelling; title: Volker Heeschen 179; title: Taxonomic controversies in the twentieth century; title: Merritt Ruhlen 197; title: The origin of origins: a play in five acts, with a prologue; title: im Himmel and an epilogue auf der Erde; title: Henri Meschonnic 215; title: References 229; title: Index 257.