Advances in Biolinguistics - The Human Language Faculty and Its Biological Basis
myriad factors impacting the particulars of individual existence.) The third factor, (more general) principles not specifi c to ...
generated by (set-forming) simplest Merge (cf. Richards 2008). F or example, the orders of VO and OV, which were described by th ...
3 Ordering: third-factor underspecification Third factors are “principles not specific to the faculty of language” according to ...
If, by contrast, C’s search is executed after subject raising, as in (3), the subject/D is the goal of minimal search by C. Assu ...
on this assumption, they explain the complementary distribution of the mor- pheme ore and V-movement to C. If their analysis is ...
With the order of (2), (8b) can be derived. When C searches, the subject which man is still within vP, so that T undergoes Inter ...
triggered by ( variant) exte rnalized outputs (Berwic k and Chomsky 2011) which constitute the input to the learner, based on t ...
set. The set my I-language generates is determined by UG (including the Borer- Chomsky hypothesis), third factor, and the partic ...
Chomsky, Noam. 1965. Aspects of the theory of syntax. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. Chomsky, Noam. 1981. Lectures on government and ...
Part III Conceptual and methodological foundations ...
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1 Introduction Studies of the biological origins and evolution of the human language faculty (evo- lutionary (bio)linguistics) a ...
In evolutionary biology, it is useful and customary to draw a line between original function and current utility (see B ateson a ...
J ackendoff ’s (2010) caveat “Your theory of language evolution depends on your theory of language” must be seriously reckoned w ...
the former was a component of protolanguage and still exists in the brain of modern humans as a vestige of language evolution. T ...
3 Fallacy of a single origin Human language is a complex system which combines several independent capacities (modules), most no ...
To the extent that FLN is species-specific and evolutionarily discontinuous, its existence presents a barrier to studies of lang ...
which stand lower in the scale of psychological evolution and development.” Later to be known as Morgan’s Canon, this criterion ...
precursor in the action domain of both humans and non-humans. If so, Merge does have certain evolutionary continuity with a non- ...
specifically linked to the evolution of Merge, not language at large. More con- cretely, the domain-specific Action Merge first ...
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