Advances in Biolinguistics - The Human Language Faculty and Its Biological Basis
190 Masayuki Ike-uchi Now the following question is considered: when did Merge/UG emerge in the history of human evolution?^1 I ...
Second, we turn to the United Arab Emerites. According to Arm itage et al. (2011), assemblages (i.e., their Levallois assemblage ...
split from their common ancestor or when they migrated from Africa. This determination is the gist of our argumentation. For the ...
selection because this human language trait was clearly adaptive. Then, around 130 kya, a group of modern humans, some of whom h ...
3 Also, for that matter, prior to the intra-Africa migration from (North) East Africa, which is not explored in this chapter. 4 ...
15 I admit that this view of an early exit from Africa currently remains a minority view ( Brahic (2014)). 16 The number 150 kya ...
David Caramelli, Sergi Castellano, David Reich, Svante Pääbo, and Johannes Krause. 2013. A revised timescale for human evolution ...
Renfrew, Colin. 2007. Prehistory: The maki ng of the human mind. New York: Modern Library. Reyes-Centeno, Hugo, Silvia Ghirotto, ...
1 Introduction There has been growing interest in language evolution among non-linguists as well as linguists. Even in the dawn ...
The early stage of the Minimalist Approach tries to explain the role of case under the Visibility Condition in (3). (3) Visibili ...
In this paper, on the basis of the new dynamic model of language presented in the following section, it is argued that close att ...
looking into the different aspects of language. Nevertheless, competence and use are equally worth deep study, and uniting each ...
However, language in use is full of imperfections, which are the properties of LoC required by the Communicative Interface, and ...
There exists something similar to Icelandic quirky subjects in Old English (OE) and Middle English (ME). Examples in (11) repres ...
(14) Mildheorted beð þe man þe reouð his nehgebures unselðe merciful is the man who regret his neighbors’ unfortune and likeð he ...
Next, the derivational process at LoC is mainly controlled by the need to make the thematic roles assigned at LoT visible to hea ...
(22) [FP eall ðis <th←acc, top> [F’ aredað+F [VP se reccere<ag←nom> [V’ swiðe ryhte all this arranges the ruler very ...
is maintained as in (27a), whereas the V-final order is used in German as in (27b). (27) a. að henni/stelpunum líkuðu hestarnir ...
As (29) illustrates, at LoT a structure is built up by the external merge of semantic features in accordance with the thematic h ...
Many minimalist theorists including Chomsky repeatedly insist that language did not evolve as a communication system. However, l ...
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