The biolinguistic enterprise : new perspectives on the evolution and nature of the human language faculty

Abstract

1. Introduction: Contours of the Biolinguistic Research Agenda PART ONE: EVOLUTION 2. The Biolinguistic Program: The Current State of its Evolution 3. Some Reflections on Darwin's Problem in the Context of Cartesian Biolinguistics 4. Syntax Facit Saltum Redux: Biolinguistics and the Leap to Syntax 5. A Geneticist's Dream, a Linguist's Nightmare: The Case of FOXP2 6. Biolinguistic Investigations: Genetics and Dynamics 7. Deep Homology in the Biology and Evolution of Language PART TWO: VARIATION 8. The Three factors in Evolution and variation 9. Three Factors in Language Variation 10. Approaching Parameters from Below 11. (Bio)linguistic Diversity 12. The Biolinguistic Program and historical Reconstruction 13. A Biolinguistic Approach to Variation PART THREE: COMPUTATION 14. Antisymmetry and the Lexicon 15. What Kind of Computing Device is the Human Language Faculty? 16. Clauses, Propositions, and Phases 17. Reflections on the Optimal Solution: On the Syntactic Representation of Indexicality 18. Emergence of a Systemic Semantics Through Minimal and underspecified Codes 19. Bridging the Gap Between Brain and Syntax. A Case for a Role of the Phonological Loop 20. All you Need is Merge: Biology, Computation, and language from the Bottom-up References Index

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