14.139, Books: Anthropological Ling/Ling Theories: Givon

Wed Jan 15 20:36:06 UTC 2003

LINGUIST List:  Vol-14-139. Wed Jan 15 2003. ISSN: 1068-4875.

Subject: 14.139, Books: Anthropological Ling/Ling Theories: Givon

Moderators: Anthony Aristar, Wayne State U.<aristar at linguistlist.org>
            Helen Dry, Eastern Michigan U. <hdry at linguistlist.org>

Reviews (reviews at linguistlist.org):
	Simin Karimi, U. of Arizona
	Terence Langendoen, U. of Arizona

Home Page:  http://linguistlist.org/

The LINGUIST List is funded by Eastern Michigan University, Wayne
State University, and donations from subscribers and publishers.

Editor for this issue: Marisa Ferrara <marisa at linguistlist.org>
 ==========================================================================

Links to the websites of all LINGUIST's supporting publishers are
available at the end of this issue.

=================================Directory=================================

1)
Date:  Wed, 15 Jan 2003 10:30:36 +0000
From:  paul at benjamins.com
Subject:  Bio-Linguistics: The Santa Barbara lectures

-------------------------------- Message 1 -------------------------------

Date:  Wed, 15 Jan 2003 10:30:36 +0000
From:  paul at benjamins.com
Subject:  Bio-Linguistics: The Santa Barbara lectures

Title: Bio-Linguistics
Subtitle: The Santa Barbara lectures

Publication Year: 2002
Publisher: John Benjamins
           http://www.benjamins.com/, http://www.benjamins.nl		

Book URL: http://www.benjamins.nl/cgi-bin/t_bookview.cgi?bookid=Z_113

Author: T.  Givón, University of Oregon

Hardback: ISBN: 158811225X, Pages: xviii, 383 pp., Price: USD 110.00
Hardback: ISBN: 9027225907, Pages: xviii, 383 pp., Price: EUR 110.00
Paperback: ISBN: 1588112268, Pages: xviii, 383 pp., Price: USD 43.95
Paperback: ISBN: 9027225915, Pages: xviii, 383 pp., Price: EUR 44.00

Abstract:

Is human language an evolutionary adaptation? Is linguistics a natural
science? These questions have bedeviled philosophers, philologists and
linguists from Plato through Chomsky. Prof. Givón suggests that the
answers fall naturally within an integrated study of living organisms.

In this new work, Givón points out that language operates between
aspects of both complex biological design and adaptive behavior. As in
biology, the whole is an adaptive compromise to competing
demands. Variation is the indispensable tool of learning, change and
adaptation. The contrast between innateness and input-driven emergence
is an interaction between genetically-coded and behaviorally-coded
experience.

In enlarging the cross-disciplinary domain, the book examines the
parallels between language evolution and language
diachrony. Sociality, cooperation and communication are shown to be
rooted in a common evolutionary source, the kin-based
hunting-and-gathering society of intimates.

The book pays homage to the late Joseph Greenberg and his visionary
integration of functional motivation, typological diversity and
diachronic change.

Table of Contents

Preface  xv-xviii
Language as a bio-adaptation  1-29
The bounds of generativity and the adaptive basis of variation 31-69
The demise of competence  71-122
Human language as an evolutionary product  123-162
An evolutionary account of language processing rates  163-184
The diachronic foundations of language universals  205-224
The neuro-cognitive interpretation of context  225-261
The grammar of perspective in narrative fiction  263-301
The society of intimates  303-333
On the ontology of academic negativity  335-345
Epilogue: Joseph Greenberg as a theorist  347-355
Bibliography  357-377

Lingfield(s):   Anthropological Linguistics
		Functional & Systemic Ling (Linguistic Theories)
		Historical Linguistics
		Linguistic Theories

Written In:  English (Language Code: ENG)

---------------------------------------------------------------------------

MAJOR SUPPORTERS

	Academic Press
		http://www.academicpress.com/	

	Blackwell Publishers
		http://www.blackwellpublishers.co.uk/	

	Cambridge University Press
		http://www.cup.org	

	Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd
		http://www.continuumbooks.com	

	Elsevier Science Ltd.
		http://www.elsevier.com/locate/linguistics	

	John Benjamins
		http://www.benjamins.com/	

	Kluwer Academic Publishers
		http://www.wkap.nl/	

	Lincom Europa
		http://home.t-online.de/home/LINCOM.EUROPA/	

	MIT Press
		http://mitpress.mit.edu/	

	Mouton de Gruyter
		http://www.degruyter.de/hling.html	

	Multilingual Matters
		http://www.multilingual-matters.com/	

	Oxford University Press
		http://www.oup-usa.org/	

	Palgrave Macmillan
		http://www.palgrave.com	

	Rodopi
		http://www.rodopi.nl/	

	Routledge (Taylor and Francis)
		http://www.routledge.com/	

OTHER SUPPORTING PUBLISHERS	

	Anthropological Linguistics
		http://www.indiana.edu/~anthling/

	CSLI Publications
		http://csli-publications.stanford.edu/

	Cascadilla Press
		http://www.cascadilla.com/

	Evolution Publishing
		http://www.evolpub.com

	Finno-Ugrian Society
		http://www.helsinki.fi/jarj/sus/

	Graduate Linguistic Students' Assoc., Umass
		http://server102.hypermart.net/glsa/index.htm

	International Pragmatics Assoc.
		http://ipra-www.uia.ac.be/ipra/

	Linguistic Assoc. of Finland
		http://www.ling.helsinki.fi/sky/

	MIT Working Papers in Linguistics
		http://web.mit.edu/mitwpl/

	Pacific Linguistics
		http://pacling.anu.edu.au/

	SIL International
		http://www.ethnologue.com/bookstore.asp

	Signum Verlag
		http://www.signum-verlag.de/

	St. Jerome Publishing Ltd.
		http://www.stjerome.co.uk/

	Utrecht Institute of Linguistics
		http://www-uilots.let.uu.nl/

	Virittaja Aikakauslehti
		http://www.helsinki.fi/jarj/kks/virittaja.html
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
LINGUIST List: Vol-14-139