03819oam 2200709Ia 450 991077855880332120190503073350.00-262-29379-X1-282-69428-697866126942880-262-25858-7(CKB)1000000000806027(EBL)3339057(SSID)ssj0000111952(PQKBManifestationID)11137697(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000111952(PQKBWorkID)10081478(PQKB)11142240(StDuBDS)EDZ0000130811(MiAaPQ)EBC3339057(OCoLC)459795737(OCoLC)646833347(OCoLC)692284186(OCoLC)816568654(OCoLC)961622439(OCoLC)962625567(OCoLC)963365025(OCoLC)1055360517(OCoLC)1066438175(OCoLC)1081284843(OCoLC-P)459795737(MaCbMITP)8468(Au-PeEL)EBL3339057(CaPaEBR)ebr10331658(CaONFJC)MIL269428(OCoLC)743201354(PPN)170270939(EXLCZ)99100000000080602720091026d2009 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrBiological foundations and origin of syntax /edited by Derek Bickerton and Eörs SzathmáryCambridge, Mass. MIT Press©20091 online resource (491 p.)Strüngmann Forum reportsForum held July 13-18, 2008, in Frankfurt, Germany.0-262-01356-8 Includes bibliographical references and index.Contents; The Ernst Strüngmann Forum; List of Contributors; Preface; Background; 1 Syntax for Non-syntacticians; 2 The Biological Background of Syntax Evolution; 3 Functional Neuroimaging and the Logic of Brain Operations; Syntactics; 4 Some Elements of Syntactic Computations; 5 The Adaptive Approach to Grammar; 6 Fundamental Syntactic Phenomena and Their Putative Relation to the Brain; 7 What Kinds of Syntactic Phenomena Must Biologists, Neurobiologists, and Computer Scientists Try to Explain and Replicate?; Evolution; 8 Possible Precursors of Syntactic Components in Other Species9 What Can Developmental Language Impairment Tell Us about the Genetic Bases of Syntax?10 What Are the Possible Biological and Genetic Foundations for Syntactic Phenomena?; Brain; 11 Brain Circuits of Syntax; 12 Neural Organization for Syntactic Processing as Determined by Effects of Lesions; 13 Reflections on the Neurobiology of Syntax; 14 What Are the Brain Mechanisms Underlying Syntactic Operations?; Modeling; 15 Syntax as an Adaptation to the Learner; 16 Cognition and Social Dynamics Play a Major Role in the Formation of Grammar17 What Can Formal or Computational Models Tell Us about How (Much) Language Shaped the Brain?18 What Can Mathematical, Computational, and Robotic Models Tell Us about the Origins of Syntax?; Glossary; Bibliography; Subject IndexInterdisciplinary perspectives on the evolutionary & biological roots of syntax, describing current research on syntax in fields ranging from linguistics to neurology.Strüngmann Forum reports.Grammar, Comparative and generalSyntaxCongressesBiolinguisticsCongressesLINGUISTICS & LANGUAGE/GeneralGrammar, Comparative and generalSyntaxBiolinguistics612.8/2336Bickerton Derek168758Szathmáry Eörs49252Ernst Strèungmann ForumOCoLC-POCoLC-PBOOK9910778558803321Biological foundations and origin of syntax3756409UNINA