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The Biolinguistic Enterprise
New Perspectives on the Evolution and Nature of the Human Language Faculty
Edited by Anna Maria Di Sciullo and Cedric Boeckx
576 pages
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Line drawings,
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234x156mm
978-0-19-955328-0
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Paperback
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17 March 2011
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- Assembles 20 scholars from linguistics, biology, and the computer sciences
- Offers novel hypotheses in the understanding of human language, its origin, evolution, and variation
- Re-evalutes the role of the 'language gene' FOXP2 in light of the evolution of language
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.Readership: Scholars and students of linguistics, cognitive science, biology, and natural language processing
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Edited by Anna Maria Di Sciullo, Professor of Linguistics, University of Quebec in Montreal and Director of the Major Collaborative Research Initiative on Interface Asymmetries, and Cedric Boeckx, Catalan Institute for Advanced Studies (ICREA) Contributors:
Robert C. Berwick, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cedric Boeckx, Catalan Institute for Advanced Studies and Department of Linguistics at the Universitat de Barcelona Carlo Cecchetto, University of Milan-Bicocca
Noam Chomsky, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Anna Maria Di Sciullo, University of Quebec in Montreal
Tecumseh Fitch, University of Vienna
Alessandra Giorgi, University Ca' Forcari of Venice
Cristina Guardiano, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia
Wolfram Hinzen, Durham University
Lyle Jenkins, Cambridge, USA
Richard S. Kayne, New York University
Howard Lasnik, University of Maryland
Richard Larson, University at Stony Brook
Giuseppe Longobardi, University of Trieste
Maria Rita Manzini, University of Florence
Massimo Piattelli-Palmarini, University of Arizona
Costanza Papagno, University of Milan-Bicocca
Leonardo M. Savoia, University of Florence
Juan Uriagereka, University of Maryland
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"Recommended in the Times Higher Education Guide to Textbooks in Languages and Linguistics"
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1: Anna Maria Di Sciullo and Cedric Boeckx: Introduction: Contours of the Biolinguistic Research Agenda
Part One: Evolution
2: Robert Berwick and Noam Chomsky: The Biolinguistic Program: The Current State of its Evolution
3: Cedric Boeckx: Some Reflections on Darwin's Problem in the Context of Cartesian Biolinguistics
4: Robert Berwick: Syntax Facit Saltum Redux: Biolinguistics and the Leap to Syntax
5: Massimo Piatelli-Palmarini and Juan Uriagereka: A Geneticist's Dream, a Linguist's Nightmare: The Case of FOXP2
6: Lyle Jenkins: Biolinguistic Investigations: Genetics and Dynamics
7: Tecumseh Fitch: "Deep Homology" in the Biology and Evolution of Language
Part Two: Variation
8: Lyle Jenkins: The Three factors in Evolution and variation
9: Charles Yang: Three Factors in Language Variation
10: Cedric Boeckx: Approaching Parameters from Below
11: Rita Manzini and Leonardo Savoia: (Bio)linguistic Diversity
12: Giuseppe Longobardi and Cristina Guardiano: The Biolinguistic Program and historical Reconstruction
13: Anna Maria Di Sciullo: A Biolinguistic Approach to Variation
Part Three: Computation
14: Richard Kayne: Antisymmetry and the Lexicon
15: Howard Lasnik: What Kind of Computing Device is the Human Language Faculty?
16: Richard Larson: Clauses, Propositions, and Phases
17: Alessandra Giorgi: Reflections on the Optimal Solution: On the Syntactic Representation of Indexicality
18: Wolfram Hinzen: Emergence of a Systemic Semantics Through Minimal and underspecified Codes
19: Carlo Cecchetto and Costanza Papagno: Bridging the Gap Between Brain and Syntax. A Case for a Role of the Phonological Loop
20: Robert Berwick: All you Need is Merge: Biology, Computation, and language from the Bottom-up
References
Index
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