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001 2001034295
003 DLC
005 20050211211839.0
008 010507s2001 gw af b 001 0 eng
010 $a 2001034295
020 $a3110170256 (alk. paper)
040 $aDLC$cDLC$dDLC$dDLC
050 00 $aP116$b.N48 2001
082 00 $a401$221
245 00 $aNew essays on the origin of language /$cedited by Jürgen Trabant, Sean Ward.
260 $aBerlin ;$a[Hawthorne], N.Y. :$bMouton de Gruyter,$c2001
300 $avi, 258 p. :$bill. ;$c24 cm.
440 0 $aTrends in linguistics.$pStudies and monographs ;$v133
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [229]-255) and index.
505 8 $aMachine 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.
650 0 $aLanguage and languages$xOrigin.
700 1 $aTrabant, Jürgen.
700 1 $aWard, Sean,$d1963-
856 41 $3Table of contents$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/fy022/2001034295.html