TY  - BOOK
AU  - Aitchison,Jean
AU  - Bierwisch,Manfred
AU  - Comrie,Bernard
AU  - Dor,Daniel
AU  - Heeschen,Volker
AU  - Hurford,James R.
AU  - Jablonka,Eva
AU  - Klein,Wolfgang
AU  - Lieberman,Philip
AU  - Meschonnic,Henri
AU  - Ruhlen,Merritt
AU  - Szathmáry,Eörs
AU  - Trabant,Jürgen
AU  - Ward,Sean
TI  - New Essays on the Origin of Language
T2  - Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM] ,
SN  - 9783110170252
AV  - P116 .N48 2001eb
U1  - 401 21
PY  - 2011///]
CY  - Berlin, Boston : 
PB  - De Gruyter Mouton, 
KW  - Language and languages
KW  - Origin
KW  - Aufsatzsammlung
KW  - Sprachursprung
KW  - LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - I-IV --; Contents --; Introduction: New perspectives on an old academic question --; 1. Biological aspects of the question --; On the subcortical bases of the evolution of language --; The origin of the human language faculty: the language amoeba hypothesis --; 2. The first language --; The apparent paradox of language evolution: can Universal Grammar be explained by adaptive selection? --; Elementary forms of linguistic organisation --; From potential to realisation: an episode in the origin of language --; Protothought had no logical names --; The birth of rules --; How language changed the genes: toward an explicit account of the evolution of language --; 3. Beyond biolinguistics --; The narration "instinct": signalling behaviour, communication, and the selective value of storytelling --; Taxonomic controversies in the twentieth century --; The origin of origins: a play in five acts, with a prologue im Himmel and an epilogue auf der Erde --; References --; Index; restricted access; Issued also in print
N2  - 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
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110849080
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9783110849080
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9783110849080/original
ER  -