Tool Intelligence As an Explanation of Cross Linguistic Variation - An Evolutionary and Typological Investigation

Tool Intelligence taps primatological and linguistic field research to draw an analogy between prelinguistic material cultures of nonhuman primates and natural human languages. Linguistics and cognitive science are given new incentives to search for cognitive homology in areas of extended problem awareness and manipulative intentionality.

List of contents

1.Languages and Tools
2.Language in the Light of Biological Evolution
3.The Tool Hypothesis
4.Reciprocity in Language (and Beyond)
5.Structural Variation
6.Functional Variation
7.Family Resemblances
8.The Relationship to Biological Concepts of Reciprocity
9.Conclusions
10.Appendix A: Language Information
11.Appendix B: Language Data Sets
12.Appendix C: References for Figure Entries

About the author

By Anneliese Kuhle

Product details

• Authors: Anneliese Kuhle
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2018
• EAN: 9781498561211
• ISBN: 978-1-4985-6121-1
• No. of pages: 268
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Other languages / Other literatures; Linguistics, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Sociolinguistics, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Grammar & Punctuation, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Syntax, Sociolinguistics, Grammar, syntax & morphology, Historical & comparative linguistics, Grammar, syntax and morphology, Historical and comparative linguistics