セドリック・ブックス（共）編／生物言語学の企て The Biolinguistic Enterprise: New Perspectives on the Evolution and Nature of the Human Language Faculty (Oxford Studies in Biolinguistics")

Di Sciullo, Anna Maria(EDT)/ Boeckx, Cedric(EDT)

Oxford University Press, USA（2011/05発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 576 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780199553280
• DDC分類 401

基本説明

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.

Full Description

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, TheBiolinguistic Enterprise will appeal to scholars and students of linguistics, cognitive science, biology, and natural language processing.

Contents

1. IntroductionONE: 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