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Biological Foundations and Origin of Syntax
Interdisciplinary perspectives on the evolutionary and biological roots of syntax, describing current research on syntax in fields ranging from linguistics to neurology.Syntax is …
Roots of language
Language and Species
Language and Species presents the most detailed and well-documented scenario to date of the origins of language. Drawing on "living linguistic fossils" such as "ape talk," the …
Grammatical Relations in a Radical Creole
With English and Portuguese as parent languages; the significant lexical retention of African languages; and the relative isolation of its speakers, Saramaccan has always stood out …
Language and Human Behavior
"What this book proposes to do," writes Derek Bickerton, "is to stand the conventional wisdom of the behavioral sciences on its head: instead of the human species growing clever …
The Murders of Boysie Singh
The Murders of Boysie Singh, first published in 1962, is a classic for several reasons. It tells the true but almost unbelievable story of a Trinidadian badjohn who in the 1940s …
Dynamics of a Creole System
In this volume the author describes and systematically accounts for language variation in a Creole-speaking community and assesses the implications the study has on generally …
The City and the Desert: The Commandment Trilogy Part 3
Adam's Tongue
How language evolved has been called 'the hardest problem in science'. In "ADAM'S TONGUE", Derek Bickerton - long a leading authority in this field - shows how and why previous …
Lingua ex Machina
A neuroscientist and a linguist show how evolution could have given rise to structured language.A machine for language? Certainly, say the neurophysiologists, busy studying the …
25 poems on death and love
More than Nature Needs
The human mind is an unlikely evolutionary adaptation. How did humans acquire cognitive capacities far more powerful than anything a hunting-and-gathering primate needed to …