07506nam 2200745 a 450 991096826730332120240513085000.09786612775024978128277502212827750229789027287823902728782110.1075/bct.24(CKB)2670000000048412(SSID)ssj0000416697(PQKBManifestationID)12153898(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000416697(PQKBWorkID)10422503(PQKB)11585868(MiAaPQ)EBC623345(Au-PeEL)EBL623345(CaPaEBR)ebr10417552(CaONFJC)MIL277502(OCoLC)673664200(DE-B1597)721355(DE-B1597)9789027287823(EXLCZ)99267000000004841220100622d2010 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrThe emergence of protolanguage holophrasis vs compositionality /edited by Michael A. Arbib and Derek Bickerton1st ed.Amsterdam ;Philadelphia John Benjamins Pub. Co.2010xi, 181 p. ill. (some col.)Benjamins current topics ;v. 24Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph9789027222541 9027222541 Includes bibliographical references and indexes.The Emergence of Protolanguage -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- Untitled -- Table of contents -- Preface -- Is a holistic protolanguage a plausible precursor to language? -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Learning by segmentation and the analysis process -- 3. Criticism 1: Can Homo analyse? -- 3.1 Can modern humans analyse? -- 3.2 Could earlier hominids analyse? -- 3.3 Can Homo analyse: A summary -- 4. Criticism 2: Can analysis tolerate counter-examples? -- 4.1 Claim 1: The existence of counter-examples -- 4.2 Dealing with counter-examples -- 4.3 Counter-examples: A summary -- 5. Criticism 3: Does analysis violate the uniformitarian assumption? -- 6. Conclusions -- Acknowledgements -- Notes -- References -- Author's address -- About the author -- Proto-discourse and the emergence of compositionality -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Discourse as sequenced communicative behaviour -- 3. From joint attention to words -- 4. From words to combinations -- 5. Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- Notes -- References -- Author's address -- Protolanguage in ontogeny and phylogeny -- Method -- Children -- Apes -- Combining gesture with and word or lexigram: Parallel phenomena in child and ape -- Frequency of different kinds of two-element combinations -- Developmental sequencing -- Indication -- Agent-action relation -- Object associated with another object or location -- Sources of ape-child differences in gesture-symbol combinations -- Unique to human children: Constructing messages indicating possession -- Deixis plus representation as a dynamic force in language ontogeny: Implications for protolanguage -- References -- Author's addresses -- From metonymy to syntax in the communication of events -- 1. The plausibility of protolanguage -- 2. Protopragmatics -- 3. Protosemantics -- 3.1 The deictic stage -- 3.2 Meaning fractionation vs. combination.3.3 Multi-metonymy: Compositionality without syntax -- 3.4 Ambiguity and inference -- 4. The functions of protolanguage -- 4.1 Proximal functions -- 4.2 Ultimate functions -- 4.3 The 'first-to-know' display -- 5. Discussion -- 6. From protolanguage to language -- 7. Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- The "complex first" paradox -- Words and concepts -- Nouns and adjectives -- The structure of meaning -- Situated conceptualization and the theory of neuro-frames -- Evolution and development of the syntax-semantics interface -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Holophrastic protolanguage -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Conceptual planning: Implications for protolanguage -- 3. Idioms, processing and complexity -- 4. Lexical constraints on word learning -- Notes -- References -- Protolanguage reconstructed -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The nature of protolanguage -- 2.1 Synthetic complexification -- 2.2 Analytic complexification -- 2.3 Semantic complexity -- 3. Protolinguistic communication -- 3.1 Coded communication -- 3.2 Inferential communication -- 4. The consequences of meaning inference -- 4.1 Variation -- 4.2 Reconstructibility -- 5. Complexification -- 5.1 Semantic complexification -- 5.2 Syntactic complexification -- 5.3 To language -- 6. Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- References -- Growth points from the very beginning -- Across time scales -- Gestures and speech - Two simultaneous modes of semiosis -- Kendon's continuum -- The growth point -- A thought-language-hand brain link -- The IW case -- GPs and language evolution -- 'Mead's Loop' and mirror neurons -- But not 'gesture-first' -- Conclusions -- Notes -- References -- The roots of linguistic organization in a new language -- Duality of patterning -- Prosody -- Syntax -- Words -- Phrases -- Sentences -- Units larger than a clause -- Recursion -- Morphology -- Conclusion -- Notes.References -- Holophrasis and the protolanguage spectrum -- 1. Introduction -- 2. An evolutionary scenario in which holophrasis plays a key role -- The Mirror System Hypothesis (MSH) -- Construction grammar versus universal grammar -- From holophrasis to compositionality -- The emergence of phonology -- 3. Facing up to common problems -- 4. Defending the holophrastic view -- From situations to protowords -- Predicates and Categories -- Simplicity is complicated -- Grammar emerges -- References -- Author's address -- But how did protolanguage actually start? -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Critical differences between human and non-human communication -- 3. Relevance to the holophrasis-compositionality debate -- 4. The need for a paleoanthropological approach -- References -- About the author -- Name Index -- Subject index -- The series Benjamins Current Topics (BCT).In dealing with the nature of protolanguage, an important formative factor in its development, and one that would surely have influenced that nature, has too often been neglected: the precise circumstances under which protolanguage arose. Three factors are involved in this neglect: a failure to appreciate radical differences between the functions of language and animal communication, a failure to relate developments to the overall course of human evolution, and the supposition that protolanguage represents a package, rather than a series of separate developments that sequentially impacted the communication of pre-humans. An approach that takes these factors into account is very briefly suggested.Benjamins current topics ;v. 24.Language and languagesEtymologyLanguage acquisitionHuman evolutionHistorical linguisticsLanguage and languagesEtymology.Language acquisition.Human evolution.Historical linguistics.417/.7Arbib Michael A13645Bickerton Derek168758MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910968267303321The emergence of protolanguage4346184UNINA