This book, by leading scholars, represents some of the main work in progress in biolinguistics. It offers fresh perspectives on language evolution and variation, new developments in theoretical linguistics, and insights on the relations between variation in language and variation in biology. The authors address the Darwinian questions on the origin and evolution of language from a minimalist perspective, and provide elegant solutions to the evolutionary gap betweenhuman language and communication in all other organisms. They consider language variation in the context of current biological approaches to species diversity – the ‘evo-devo revolution’ – which bring to light deep homologies between organisms. In dispensing with the classical notion of syntacticparameters, the authors argue that language variation, like biodiversity, is the result of experience and thus not a part of the language faculty in the narrow sense. They also examine the nature of this core language faculty, the primary categories with which it is concerned, the operations it performs, the syntactic constraints it poses on semantic interpretation and the role of phases in bridging the gap between brain and syntax. Written in language accessible to a wide audience, The Biolinguistic Enterprise will appeal to scholars and students of linguistics, cognitive science, biology, and natural language processing.
Cedric Boeckx & Anna Maria Di Sciullo
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New Perspectives on the Evolution and Nature of the Human Language Faculty
Biolinguistic Enterprise [PDF ebook]
New Perspectives on the Evolution and Nature of the Human Language Faculty
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Bahasa Inggris ● Format PDF ● ISBN 9780191612701 ● Editor Cedric Boeckx & Anna Maria Di Sciullo ● Penerbit OUP Oxford ● Diterbitkan 2011 ● Diunduh 6 kali ● Mata uang EUR ● ID 2275501 ● Perlindungan salinan Adobe DRM
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