ISBN10: 0262013568, ISBN13: 9780262013567, [publisher: MIT Press] Hardcover Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2009. Hardcover. Dustjacket. 492 pp.(Strüngmann Forum Reports). - Syntax is arguably the most human-specific aspect of language. Despite the proto-linguistic capacities of some animals, syntax appears to be the last major evolutionary transition in humans that has some genetic basis. Yet what are the elements to a scenario that can explain such a transition? In this book, experts from linguistics, neurology and neurobiology, cognitive psychology, ecology and evolutionary biology, and computer modeling address this question. Unlike most previous work on the evolution of language, Biological Foundations and Origin of Syntax follows through on a growing consensus among researchers that language can be profitably separated into a number of related and interacting but largely autonomous functions, each of which may have a distinguishable evolutionary history and neurological base. The contributors argue that syntax is such a function. English text. Condition : as new. Condition : as new copy. ISBN 9780262013567. Keywords : ,
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