Biolinguistic Investigations and the Formal Language Hierarchy

Informationen zum Autor Juan Uriagereka is Professor of Linguistics in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Maryland, College Park. His previous publications include Spell-Out and the Minimalist Program (2012) and Derivations: Exploring the Dynamics of Syntax (2002). Zusammenfassung This volume collects some of Juan Uriagereka’s previously published pieces and presentations on biolinguistics in one comprehensive volume. The volume highlights eight of the author’s key papers from the literature representative of both the architectural and evolutionary considerations to be taken into account within biolinguistic research. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction 2. Minimalism (with Cedric Boeckx) 3. Minimalizing Language Evolution: The Minimalist Program and the Evolutionary Sharping of Language (with Victor M. Longa & Guillermo Lorenzo) 4. Clarifying the Notion "Parameter" 5. Regarding the Third Factor: Arguments for a CLASH Model 6. A Geneticist’s Dream, a Linguist’s Nightmare: The Case of FOXP2 (with Massimo Pittelli-Palmarini) 7. The Archaeological Record Speaks: Bridging Anthropology and Linguistics (with Sergio Balari, Antonio Benítez-Burraco, Marta Camps, Víctor M. Longa, & Guillermo Lorenzo) 8. A Framework for the Comparative Study of Language (with James A. Reggia & Gerald S. Wilkinson) 9. The Immune Syntax Revisited: Opening New Windows on Language Evolution (with Antonio Benitez-Burraco) 10. Epilogue, Prologue – or What?

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• Authors: Juan Uriagereka, Juan (University of Maryland - College Uriagereka
• Assisted by: Juan Uriagereka (Editor), Uriagereka Juan (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.05.2018
• EAN: 9781138082458
• ISBN: 978-1-138-08245-8
• No. of pages: 322
• Series: Routledge Leading Linguists; Routledge Leading Linguists
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / General, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General, Grammar, syntax & morphology, Grammar, syntax and morphology