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From: Mariëtte Bonenkamp [lot at uu.nl]
Subject: Semantic Structures, Communicative Principles and the Emergence of Language: Schouwstra
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Title: Semantic Structures, Communicative Principles and the Emergence
of Language
Series Title: LOT Dissertation Series
Publication Year: 2012
Publisher: Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics / Landelijke - LOT
http://www.lotpublications.nl/
Book URL: http://www.lotpublications.nl/index3.html
Author: Marieke Schouwstra
Paperback: ISBN: 9789460930966 Pages: Price: Europe EURO 20.59 Comment: only available through internet
Abstract:
How did human language become so structurally complex? This dissertation
presents evidence that complex syntactic rules in modern human language
emerged via a pre-syntactic stage that was governed by semantic principles.
This dissertation investigates the influence of meaning in evolutionarily
early language by looking at situations in which people cannot use or learn a
language normally. The systems that arise in those situations are called
restricted linguistic systems, and examples of such systems are the language
of unsupervised adult second language learners and home sign. This
dissertation relates observations from restricted linguistic systems to a
novel approach taken up in the laboratory, in which participants are asked to
communicate about simple events using only gesture and no speech: improvised
communication. Together the two branches of evidence constitute a picture of
evolutionarily early language in which semantic principles take a central
position: they precede and ultimately drive syntactic rules.
Because of its interdisciplinary approach, this book targets a wide audience,
and it will be relevant to linguists (and non-linguists) interested in
meaning, language and evolution.
Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics
Semantics
Syntax
Written In: English (eng)
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