Advances in Biolinguistics - The Human Language Faculty and Its Biological Basis

Index

action grammar 148, 225
adaptive landscape, language disorders
as areas within 265
agent 204–5
Agree 30–1, 42n7, 42n12, 43n26,
47–51, 53–5, 189; see also agreement
agreement 12, 16, 20, 22–4, 31–2,
36–7; attraction 218–20
Allen, C. L. 203–4
Aristotle 1
attention 104, 107–8, 114; focus and
fringe 116–20

BA 44 224–6; see also Broca’s area
BA 45 224–6; see also Broca’s area
Baars, B. J. 106
Baddeley, A. 103–5
basal ganglia 231
Bind 39; see also binding
binding 30, 39, 41n3, 43n26
biolinguistics 1, 153–4
Bloom, P. 198
Boeckx, C. 118–19
Borer-Chomsky conjecture 129–31, 136
brain 163–4; and language disorders
263
broad syntax 209n5; see also narrow
syntax
Broca’s aphasics 143
Broca’s area 109, 121–2, 223–5

case: abstract 199; alternation 59;
feature 51–4
Case Filter 198; see also case
causation 174–5, 177–8, 181–2
central executive 104–5, 108
cerebellum 231
chain 39–40
chain-formation 30–2, 39; see also chain

CHILDES 74–5

Chomsky, N. 1, 9–15, 17–18, 21, 25n2,

25n3, 26n6, 33, 36, 69–70, 74, 115,

119, 129, 132–3, 144, 147, 153,

158–9, 165, 198, 201–2, 207, 209

chunk 105, 112–14, 119–22

CI Interface 200

classical ethology 180

cognitive: control 107–9, 112–14,

120–1; cycle 107–9, 116–20

comparative method 157

complexity 161

computational phenotype 164

conjunction reduction 203

convergent evolution 190

Corballis, M. 145

covariance relation 48–50, 52, 54

Crain, S. 220

cross-modularity 163

Darwin, C. 198

dependent-marking language 52–3

Depth 17–18, 38–41

descent with modifi cation 2–3, 149

development 154–5, 159–61

Developmental Systems Theory

(DST) 161

displacement 201, 208

domain specifi city 154

Döring, P. 85–91

D-to-C movement 133–4, 136, 137

dual causation 181; see also causation

duality of semantics 202

Dynamic Symmetrization Condition

(DSC) 19–21, 26

edge 54–6, 59–60

E-language 159–61

EM see External Merge