LEADER 03468nam 2200529 a 450 001 9910822728703321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-282-16084-2 010 $a9786612160844 010 $a90-272-9606-5 035 $a(CKB)1000000000550500 035 $a(OCoLC)55664360 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10046370 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000277337 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11239279 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000277337 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10233762 035 $a(PQKB)11683044 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC622278 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000550500 100 $a20020605d2002 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aBio-linguistics $ethe Santa Barbara lectures /$fT. Givon 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aAmsterdam ;$aPhiladelphia $cJ. Benjamins Pub. Co.$dc2002 215 $a1 online resource (401 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a1-58811-225-X 311 $a90-272-2590-7 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [355]-375) and index. 327 $aBio-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. 330 $aIs 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. 606 $aBiolinguistics 615 0$aBiolinguistics. 676 $a401 700 $aGivon$b Talmy$f1936-$0386338 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910822728703321 996 $aBio-linguistics$9747360 997 $aUNINA