Michael Breyl
List of John Benjamins publications in which Michael Breyl is involved.
Articles
2023 Reconsidering linguistic nativism from an interdisciplinary, emergentist perspective Evolutionary Linguistic Theory 5:2, pp. 162–193 | Article
For decades, interdisciplinary research efforts have accumulated insights that diminish the significance of the classic nature versus nurture dichotomy, instead calling for a nuanced, multifactorial approach to ontogeny. Similarly, the role of genes in both phylogeny and ontogeny, once seen as… read more
2021 On conceptualizing grammatical change in a Darwinian framework: A reply to Hubert Haider Biological Evolution: More than a metaphor for grammar change, Manzini, Maria Rita (ed.), pp. 93–108 | Commentary
Approaching language change within a Darwinian framework constitutes a long-standing tradition within the literature of diachronic linguistics. However, many publications remain vague, omitting conceptual details or missing necessary terminology. For example, phylogenetic trees of language… read more