The Origins of Grammar : An Anthropological Perspective.

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Why All the Fuss? -- The Problem of Brainpower -- Two Legs, Two Hands -- Making Tools -- Hunting and Culture -- Language: the final frontier? -- The Genetic Problem of Language -- What Is Language for? -- Mapping the Journey -- 2 The Story So Far -- Language Is Tool Use -- Language Is Play -- Language Is a Signal of Fitness -- Language Is Gestural -- Language Is Cognition -- Language Is Social Construction -- Language Just Is -- 3 The Heavy Hand of Generative Linguistics -- Linguistic Structure -- Extending Structure -- Principles and Parameters -- Small Is Beautiful -- Generative Origins -- Is Generative Grammar an Inimical Environment for Language Origins? -- 4 Other Views on Language -- A System of Functions -- Systemic Functional Grammar -- Other Views on Functional Grammar -- Grammar without Tiers? -- Linear Grammars -- Functionalism and the Origins of Grammar -- 5 It's All in the Mind -- A Short History of Cognitive Linguistics -- The Nature of Cognitive Linguistics -- Embodiment -- The Modularity Debate -- The Nature of Cognitive Grammar -- Cognitive Linguistics and Language Origins -- 6 Being Human -- Physical Differences -- Manual Dexterity Is Social Dexterity? -- Working Together -- The Problem of Culture -- The Costs of Reproduction -- Beating the Cheats -- Making Models -- 7 The Weirdness of Self -- Planning and Modelling -- Human Social Models -- The Self and Language -- Selfishness and Self-awareness -- Four Selves -- Awareness of Self -- 8 How Did We Come to Be Human? -- Altruistic Punishment -- Metaphor in Cognition -- THE GROUP IS AN ENTITY -- Where Does the GROUP Come from? -- Altruistic Punishment as an Engine of Socialization -- THE GROUP IS AN ENTITY: building social structures -- THE GROUP IS AN ENTITY: an ancient metaphor? -- What Happened, and When?.

9 How Did We Come to Use Grammar? -- Grammaticalization -- Grammaticalization and Language Origins -- Overture and Beginners, Please -- Not Required at the Origin of Grammar -- Becoming Complex -- From Non-grammar to Grammar -- 10 What Nonhumans Tell Us about Being Human -- Animals and Grammar -- Primate, Know Thyself -- Multiple Intelligences -- Accommodating Others -- Empathy -- Not about Language? -- 11 What Young Humans Tell Us about Being Human -- Children and Language Origins -- Children and Co-operation -- Children and Selfhood -- Children and Language -- 12 What Time Tells Us about Being Human -- Getting Tense -- Doing Other Things with Time -- Adding Depth -- Time, Uncertainty and Fiction -- Becoming Time-aware -- Three Time Points, Three Voices? -- Time and Being Human -- 13 The Evolution of Grammar -- Basic Communication -- Social Modelling -- Uttering Language -- What Language Did Next -- Becoming Myself -- Are There Grammar Universals? -- And Finally -- References -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z.

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