Full Description
Biolinguistics, the study of the relation between humans' biology and the properties of the Language Faculty, is an emergent and lively field, and is central to linguistics. It gives rise to lively debates on the origin of language, and the specificity of human language in the animal kingdom as well as the biological basis of the human language capacities. This new four volume collection assembles the most important contributions to the field, exploring the foundations of the subject and language development, variation in languages and biology, and complexities in language and biology.
Contents
Volume III Language Variation, Parameters, Evolution. Part 7Variation 35 Methods in parametic linguistics and cognitive history 36 Review of Syntactic Change: A Minimalist Approach to Grammaticalization 37 Universals, diversity and change in the science of language: reaction to 'The myth of language universals and cognitive science' 38 The proper treatment of language acquisition and change in a population setting 39 Why are there no directionality parameters? 40 A syntactic universal and its consequences 41 A cross language families: genome diversity mirrors linguistic variation within Europe 42 U sing hybridization networks to retrace the evolution of Indo-European languages Part 8 Evolution 43 What is language, that it may have evolved, and what is evolution, that it may apply to language 44 Genetics and the evolution of language: what genetic studies reveal about the evolution of language 45 "Deep homology" in the biology and evolution of language 46 Some simple evo-devo theses: how true might they be for language? 47 Evo-devo, deep homology and FoxP2: implications for the evolution of speech and language 48 Evolution, brain, and the nature of language 49 The precedence of syntax in the rapid emergence of human language in evolution as defined by the integration hypothesis 50 Object pronouns in the evolution of Romanian: a biolinguistic perspective.
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- Forever Elle
