03753nam 2200625 a 450 991078585130332120200520144314.03-11-084908-910.1515/9783110849080(CKB)2670000000251891(SSID)ssj0000560046(PQKBManifestationID)11338051(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000560046(PQKBWorkID)10569227(PQKB)11117100(WaSeSS)Ind00013724(DE-B1597)56007(OCoLC)979585961(DE-B1597)9783110849080(Au-PeEL)EBL3042544(CaPaEBR)ebr10599485(OCoLC)922945650(MiAaPQ)EBC3042544(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.The contributions to this volume reflect the state of the art in the renewed discussion on the origin of language. Some of the most important specialists in the field - life scientists and linguists - primarily examine two aspects of the question: the origin of the language faculty and the evolution of the first language. At stake is the relation between nature and culture and between universality and historical particularity as well as cognition, communication, and the very essence of language.Trends in linguisticsStudies and monographs ;133.Language and languagesOriginLanguage and languagesOrigin.401ES 415rvkTrabant Jürgen424690Ward Sean1963-1495240MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910785851303321New essays on the origin of language3719277UNINA