Biological foundations and origin of syntax
By: edited by Derek Bickerton and Eörs Szathmáry.
Contributors: Bickerton, Derek.; Szathmáry, Eörs.
Series: Strüngmann Forum reports; Strüngmann Forum reports
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 471
ISBN-13: 9780262013567
Subjects: Grammar, Comparative and general -- Syntax -- Congresses; Biolinguistics -- Congresses
Genres: Congresses
Notes: 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, Péter Ittzés, and Eörs Szathmáry; title: Functional neuroimaging and the logic of brain operations : methodologies, caveats, and fundamental examples from language research / Balázs Gulyás; title: Some elements of syntactic computations / Luigi Rizzi; title: The adaptive approach to grammar / T. Givón; title: Fundamental syntactic 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: 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? / Szabolcs Számadó ... [et al.]; title: Brain circuits of syntax / Angela D. Friederici; title: Neural organization for syntactic processing as determined by effects of lesions : logic, data, and difficult questions / David Caplan; title: Reflections on the neurobiology of syntax / Peter Hagoort; title: What are the brain mechanisms underlying syntactic operations? / Anna Fedor ... [et al.]; title: Syntax as an adaptation to the learner / Simon Kirby, Morten H. Christiansen, and Nick Chater; title: Cognition and social dynamics play a major role in the formation of grammar / Luc Steels; title: What can formal or computational models tell us about how (much) language shaped the brain? / Ted Briscoe; title: What can mathematical, computational, and robotic models tell us about the origin of syntax? / Herbert Jaeger ... [et al.].