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Mouton de Gruyter
Language
English
Pages
258

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Subjects
Origin, Language and languages, Language and languages, origin
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Cover of: New Essays on the Origin of Language
New Essays on the Origin of Language
2011, De Gruyter, Inc.
in English
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New essays on the origin of language
2001, Mouton de Gruyter
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Cover of: New Essays on the Origins of Language (Trends in Linguistics: Studies and Monographs, No. 133) (Trends in Linguistics: Studies and Monographs)
New Essays on the Origins of Language (Trends in Linguistics: Studies and Monographs, No. 133) (Trends in Linguistics: Studies and Monographs)
July 2001, Mouton de Gruyter
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Berlin, [Hawthorne], N.Y

Table of Contents

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.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. [229]-255) and index.

Series
Trends in linguistics., 133

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Dewey Decimal Class
401
Library of Congress
P116 .N48 2001, P116.N48 2001

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Pagination
vi, 258 p. :
Number of pages
258

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Open Library
OL3947189M
ISBN 10
3110170256
LCCN
2001034295
OCLC/WorldCat
46935997
Library Thing
8301794
Goodreads
5123164

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