03468nam 2200529 a 450 991082272870332120200520144314.01-282-16084-2978661216084490-272-9606-5(CKB)1000000000550500(OCoLC)55664360(CaPaEBR)ebrary10046370(SSID)ssj0000277337(PQKBManifestationID)11239279(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000277337(PQKBWorkID)10233762(PQKB)11683044(MiAaPQ)EBC622278(EXLCZ)99100000000055050020020605d2002 uy 0engurcnu||||||||txtccrBio-linguistics the Santa Barbara lectures /T. Givon1st ed.Amsterdam ;Philadelphia J. Benjamins Pub. Co.c20021 online resource (401 p.) Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph1-58811-225-X 90-272-2590-7 Includes bibliographical references (p. [355]-375) and index.Bio-Linguistics -- Title page -- LCC page -- IN MEMORIAM JOSEPH GREENBERG -- Table of contents -- Preface -- Chapter 1 Language as a biological adaptation -- Notes -- Chapter 2 The bounds of generativity and the adaptive basis of variation -- Notes -- Chapter 3 The demise of competence -- Notes -- Chapter 4 Human language as an evolutionary product -- Notes -- Chapter 5 An evolutionary account of language processing rates -- Notes -- Appendix -- Chapter 6 The diachronic foundations of language universals -- Notes -- Chapter 7 The neuro-cognitive interpretation of 'context': Anticipating other minds -- Notes -- Chapter 8 The grammar of the narrator's perspective in fiction -- Notes -- Chapter 9 The society of intimates -- Notes -- Chapter 10 On the ontology of academic negativity -- Notes -- Epilogue: Joseph Greenberg as a theorist -- Bibliography -- Index.Is human language an evolutionary adaptation? Is linguistics a natural science? These questions have bedeviled philosophers, philologists and linguists from Plato through Chomsky. Prof. Givón suggests that the answers fall naturally within an integrated study of living organisms.In this new work, Givón points out that language operates between aspects of both complex biological design and adaptive behavior. As in biology, the whole is an adaptive compromise to competing demands. Variation is the indispensable tool of learning, change and adaptation. The contrast between innateness and input-driven emergence is an interaction between genetically-coded and behaviorally-coded experience.In enlarging the cross-disciplinary domain, the book examines the parallels between language evolution and language diachrony. Sociality, cooperation and communication are shown to be rooted in a common evolutionary source, the kin-based hunting-and-gathering society of intimates.The book pays homage to the late Joseph Greenberg and his visionary integration of functional motivation, typological diversity and diachronic change.BiolinguisticsBiolinguistics.401Givon Talmy1936-386338MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910822728703321Bio-linguistics747360UNINA