TY  - BOOK
AU  - Trabant,Jürgen
AU  - Ward,Sean
AU  - Trabant,Jürgen
TI  - New Essays on the Origin of Language
T2  - Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM] Series
SN  - 9783110849080
AV  - P116 -- .N48 2001eb 
PY  - 2001///
CY  - Berlin/Boston
PB  - De Gruyter, Inc.
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Intro -- Introduction: New perspectives on an old academic question -- 1. Biological aspects of the question -- On the subcortical bases of the evolution of language -- 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
N2  - The series publishes state-of-the-art work on core areas of linguistics across theoretical frameworks as well as studies that provide new insights by building bridges to neighbouring fields such as neuroscience and cognitive science. The series considers itself a forum for cutting-edge research based on solid empirical data on language in its various manifestations, including sign languages. It regards linguistic variation in its synchronic and diachronic dimensions as well as in its social contexts as important sources of insight for a better understanding of the design of linguistic systems and the ecology and evolution of language
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