03270nam 2200625 a 450 991046192540332120200520144314.03-11-084908-910.1515/9783110849080(CKB)2670000000251891(SSID)ssj0000560046(PQKBManifestationID)11338051(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000560046(PQKBWorkID)10569227(PQKB)11117100(MiAaPQ)EBC3042544(WaSeSS)Ind00013724(DE-B1597)56007(OCoLC)979585961(DE-B1597)9783110849080(Au-PeEL)EBL3042544(CaPaEBR)ebr10599485(OCoLC)922945650(EXLCZ)99267000000025189120010507d2001 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrNew essays on the origin of language[electronic resource] /edited by Jürgen Trabant, Sean WardReprint 2011Berlin New York Mouton de Gruyter2001vi, 258 p. ill. (some col.)Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM] ;133Trends in linguistics.Studies and monographs ;133Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph3-11-017025-6 Includes bibliographical references (p. [229]-255) and index.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.Trends in linguisticsStudies and monographs ;133.Language and languagesOriginElectronic books.Language and languagesOrigin.401ES 415rvkTrabant Jürgen424690Ward Sean1963-1031248MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910461925403321New essays on the origin of language2448526UNINA