New essays on the origin of language [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Jürgen Trabant, Sean Ward

• Pubblicazione: Berlin, : New York, : Mouton de Gruyter, 2001
• Edizione: Reprint 2011
• Descrizione fisica: vi, 258 p. : ill. (some col.)
• Disciplina: 401
• Soggetto topico: Language and languages - Origin
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Classificazione: ES 415
• Altri autori: TrabantJürgen WardSean <1963->
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [229]-255) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: New essays on the origin of language
• ISBN: 3-11-084908-9
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910461925403321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Trends in linguistics . -Studies and monographs ; ; 133.