New Essays on the Origin of LanguageJürgen Trabant, Sean Ward Walter de Gruyter, 2001 - 258 páginas The contributions to this volume reflect the state of the art in the renewed discussion on the origin of language. Some of the most important specialists in the field - life scientists and linguists - primarily examine two aspects of the question: the origin of the language faculty and the evolution of the first language. At stake is the relation between nature and culture and between universality and historical particularity as well as cognition, communication, and the very essence of language. |
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New perspectives on an old academic question | 1 |
On the subcortical bases of the evolution of language | 21 |
the language amoeba hypothesis | 41 |
can Universal Grammar | 55 |
Elementary forms of linguistic organisation | 81 |
an episode in the origin of language | 103 |
Protothought had no logical names | 119 |
The birth of rules | 133 |
toward an explicit account of | 149 |
signalling behaviour communication | 179 |
Taxonomic controversies in the twentieth century | 197 |
a play in five acts with a prologue | 215 |
References | 229 |
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Mithridates im Paradies: kleine Geschichte des Sprachdenkens Jürgen Trabant Vista previa restringida - 2003 |
Bursting the Limits of Time: The Reconstruction of Geohistory in the Age of ... M. J. S. Rudwick Vista previa restringida - 2005 |