In:The Emergence of Protolanguage: Holophrasis vs compositionality
Edited by Michael A. Arbib and Derek Bickerton
[Benjamins Current Topics 24] 2010
► pp. v–vi
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Published online: 3 September 2010
https://doi.org/10.1075/bct.24.toc
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Table of contents
Preface
Is a holistic protolanguage a plausible precursor to language? A test case for a modern evolutionary linguistics
Proto-discourse and the emergence of compositionality
Protolanguage in ontogeny and phylogeny: Combining deixis and representation
From metonymy to syntax in the communication of events
The "complex first" paradox: Why do semantically thick concepts so early lexicalize as nouns?
Holophrastic protolanguage: Planning, processing, storage, and retrieval
Protolanguage reconstructed
Growth points from the very beginning
The roots of linguistic organization in a new language
Holophrasis and the protolanguage spectrum
But how did protolanguage actually start?
Name index
Subject index
