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020 _z9783110170252
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035 _a(OCoLC)815508022
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_cCaPaEBR
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245 0 0 _aNew essays on the origin of language
_h[electronic resource] /
_cedited by Jürgen Trabant, Sean Ward.
260 _aBerlin :
_bNew York :
_bMouton de Gruyter,
_c2001.
300 _avi, 258 p. :
_bill. (some col.).
440 0 _aTrends in linguistics.
_pStudies and monographs ;
_v133
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [229]-255) and index.
505 8 _aMachine generated contents note: Introduction: New perspectives on an old academic question -- Jiirgen Trabant 1 -- 1. Biological aspects of the question -- On the subcortical bases of the evolution of language -- Philip Lieberman 21 -- Origin of the human language faculty: the language amoeba hypothesis -- Eors Szathmdry 41 -- 2. The first language -- The apparent paradox of language evolution: can Universal Grammar be -- explained by adaptive selection? -- Manfred Bierwisch 55 -- Elementary forms of linguistic organisation -- Wolfgang Klein 81 -- From potential to realisation: an episode in the origin of language -- Bernard Comrie 103 -- Protothought had no logical names -- James R. Hurford 119 -- The birth of rules -- Jean Aitchison 133 -- How language changed the genes: toward an explicit account of the -- evolution of language -- Daniel Dor and Eva Jablonka 149 -- 3. Beyond biolinguistics -- The narration "instinct": signalling behaviour, communication, -- and the selective value of storytelling -- Volker Heeschen 179 -- Taxonomic controversies in the twentieth century -- Merritt Ruhlen 197 -- The origin of origins: a play in five acts, with a prologue -- im Himmel and an epilogue auf der Erde -- Henri Meschonnic 215 -- References 229 -- Index 257.
533 _aElectronic reproduction.
_bPalo Alto, Calif. :
_cebrary,
_d2011.
_nAvailable via World Wide Web.
_nAccess may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
650 0 _aLanguage and languages
_xOrigin.
655 7 _aElectronic books.
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700 1 _aTrabant, Jürgen.
700 1 _aWard, Sean,
_d1963-
710 2 _aebrary, Inc.
856 4 0 _uhttp://site.ebrary.com/lib/daystar/Doc?id=10599485
_zAn electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
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