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Subject: The Biolinguistic Enterprise: Di Sciullo, Boeckx (Eds)
 

	
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Title: The Biolinguistic Enterprise 
Subtitle: New Perspectives on the Evolution and Nature of the Human Language Faculty 
Series Title: Oxford Studies in Biolinguistics  

Publication Year: 2011 
Publisher: Oxford University Press
	   http://www.oup.com/us
	

Book URL: http://ukcatalogue.oup.com/product/9780199553280.do 


Editor: Anna Maria Di Sciullo
Editor: Cedric Boeckx

Hardback: ISBN:  9780199553273 Pages: 576 Price: U.K. £ 80.00
Paperback: ISBN:  9780199553280 Pages: 576 Price: U.K. £ 29.99


Abstract:

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 between human 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 syntactic parameters, 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, "The Biolinguistic 
Enterprise" will appeal to scholars and students of linguistics, cognitive 
science, biology, and natural language processing. 



Linguistic Field(s): Cognitive Science
                     Linguistic Theories
                     Semantics
                     Syntax


Written In: English  (eng)
	
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