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Record Nr.

UNINA9910461925403321

Titolo

New essays on the origin of language [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Jürgen Trabant, Sean Ward

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin, : New York, : Mouton de Gruyter, 2001

ISBN

3-11-084908-9

Edizione

[Reprint 2011]

Descrizione fisica

vi, 258 p. : ill. (some col.)

Collana

Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM] ; ; 133

Trends in linguistics. Studies and monographs ; ; 133

Classificazione

ES 415

Altri autori (Persone)

TrabantJürgen

WardSean <1963->

Disciplina

401

Soggetti

Language and languages - Origin

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [229]-255) and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.