34.3495, Confs: Language Evolution and the Origins of Language

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LINGUIST List: Vol-34-3495. Mon Nov 20 2023. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 34.3495, Confs: Language Evolution and the Origins of Language

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Date: 20-Nov-2023
From: George van Driem [george.vandriem at unibe.ch]
Subject: Language Evolution and the Origins of Language


Language Evolution and the Origins of Language

Date: 09-Sep-2024 - 10-Sep-2024
Location: Poznan, Poland
Contact: George van Driem
Contact Email: george.vandriem at unibe.ch

Linguistic Field(s): Anthropological Linguistics; Historical
Linguistics

Meeting Description:

On the 6th of January 1870, in the first issue of the scientific
journal Nature, the Oxford linguist Friedrich Max Müller proposed that
natural selection ‘among words and grammatical forms’ characterised
language evolution. A year later Charles Darwin explicitly adopted
Müller’s view in his Descent of Man, much as he had earlier embraced
Alfred Russel Wallace’s idea of natural selection. In recent decades,
new studies on language evolution have often stumbled upon important
insights already set forth by earlier scholars such as Pierre de
Maupertuis and Hugo Schuchardt. What are the newest developments in
research on the origin of language? How do semiotics and theories of
meaning contribute to our understanding of the emergence of language
in our ancestors? How do today’s theories of language evolution clash,
complement or dovetail with the newest insights on the nature of self
and the emergence of the type of consciousness which we encounter in
ourselves and other warm-blooded animals?




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