Livre: Origin and Evolution of Languages

Tue May 13 10:38:08 UTC 2008

Date: Mon, 12 May 2008 17:51:06 +0200
From: "Laks Bernard" <Bernard.laks at u-paris10.fr>
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Vient de paraître

Origin and Evolution of Languages: Approaches, Models, Paradigms

Edited by: Bernard Laks

Equinox Publishers, London

To order : http://www.equinoxpub.com/books/showbook.asp?bkid=201

Specifications

ISBN-10 (Hardback)            184553204X

ISBN-13 (Hardback)            9781845532048

Price (Hardback)            £60.00/$95.00

Publication Date            May 2008

Pages            352

Size            234 x 156mm

Illustrations            maps and diagrams

Readership            scholars

Description

Origin and Evolution of Languages has a strong interdisciplinary
flavour designed to highlight the true complexity of the debates in
the field. Many of the models and theories conjectured can only
receive their validation from a convergence of arguments developed
across disciplines. The book underscores this dimension by including
contribution from disciplines that have been wary, traditionally, of
extending beyond their borders: linguistics (different branches
thereof), philosophy, history and prehistory, archaeology,
anthropology, genetics, computer-modelling. The presentation is
intended to encompass both the agreements and disjunctures
characteristic of the field and insisted on laying open propositions
that clearly differ from, possibly even enter into contradiction with
one another. While several teams of researchers active in the fields
of genetics, linguistics, anthropology and archaeology have come up
with new proposals in favor of the "New Synthesis," many
competing hypotheses and models continue to be explored in areal
linguistics, language contact, wave-like diffusion. On the
anthropological scene, criticisms of the monogenetic model have set up
new debates and counter-arguments. Approaching the issue of the origin
and evolution of human languages within a Darwinian paradigm remains
problematic. On the archaeological scene, not all reconstructions are
proving compatible with current models for the circulation of
techniques, myths and cultures. On the linguistic scene, raising again
the issue of the origin / evolution of humankind and of languages in
an evolutionary, cognitive, social and cultural perspective or in
terms of generational transmission and acquisition, may induce a
reconsideration of linguistic theories in search of universals as well
as most theories of change and variation. All contributors are
world-renowned experts in their domain.

Contents

INTRODUCTION 

Serge Cleuziou (CNRS), Jean Paul Demoule (University of Paris 1),
Pierre Encrevé (EHESS), Bernard Laks (University of Paris 10)

Part One : ab originem

GENETIC EVOLUTION AND THE EVOLUTION OF LANGUAGES.

 L.L.Cavalli-Sforza, Genetics Dept. Stanford University

LANGUAGES, GENES, AND PREHISTORY, WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO EUROPE. 

Bernard Comrie, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology,
and University of California Santa Barbara

POOR DESIGN FEATURES IN LANGUAGE AS CLUES TO ITS PREHISTORY.

Andrew Carstairs-McCarthy, Linguistics, University of Canterbury, New
Zealand.

WHAT CAN WE LEARN ABOUT THE EARLIEST HUMAN LANGUAGE BY COMPARING
LANGUAGES KNOWN TODAY?

Lyle Campbell, Linguistics, University of Canterbury, New Zealand

CONCEPTUALIZATION, COMMUNICATION, AND THE ORIGINS OF GRAMMAR. 

Frederick J. Newmeyer University of Washington

THE ORIGIN OF LANGUAGE AS A PRODUCT OF THE EVOLUTION OF MODERN
COGNITION

Gilles Fauconnier and Mark Turner, University of California San Diego
and Case University

Part Two : post originem

GENETICS AND LANGUAGE: COMPARATISM AND GENEALOGY IN PERSPECTIVE. 

Bernard Laks, University of Paris 10

SIMULATING THE EXPANSION OF FARMING AND THE DIFFERENTIATION OF
EUROPEAN LANGUAGES.

Domenico Parisi, Francesco Antinucci, Francesco Natale, Federico
Cecconi, Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies, Italian
National Research Council

ON RENFREW'S HYPOTHESIS OF THE NEAR-EASTERN ORIGINS OF THE
INDO-EUROPEAN URHEIMAT

Jean-Paul Demoule, University of Paris 1

NEW PERSPECTIVES ON THE ORIGIN OF LANGUAGES 

Merrit Ruhlen Stanford University

LINGUISTIC HISTORY AND COMPUTATIONAL CLADISTICS

 Don Ringe and Tandy Warnow, University of Pennsylvania and University
of Texas

WHAT DO CREOLES AND PIDGINS TELL US ABOUT THE EVOLUTION OF LANGUAGES?

Salikoko S. Mufwene University of Chicago

LINGUISTICS AND ARCHEOLOGY.

Serge Cleuziou University Paris 1

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