Simon Kirby
List of John Benjamins publications in which Simon Kirby is involved.
2012 Systematicity and arbitrariness in novel communication systems Experimental Semiotics: Studies on the emergence and evolution of human communication, Galantucci, Bruno and Simon Garrod (eds.), pp. 15–32 | Article
Arbitrariness and systematicity are two of language’s most fascinating properties. Although both are characterizations of the mappings between signals and meanings, their emergence and evolution in communication systems has generally been explored independently. We present an experiment in which… read more
2010 Systematicity and arbitrariness in novel communication systems Experimental Semiotics: A new approach for studying the emergence and the evolution of human communication, Galantucci, Bruno and Simon Garrod (eds.), pp. 14–32 | Article
Arbitrariness and systematicity are two of language’s most fascinating properties. Although both are characterizations of the mappings between signals and meanings, their emergence and evolution in communication systems has generally been explored independently. We present an experiment in which… read more
2007 Author’s response What Counts as Evidence in Linguistics: The case of innateness, Penke, Martina and Anette Rosenbach (eds.), pp. 143–145 | Article
2007 From UG to Universals: Linguistic adaptation through iterated learning What Counts as Evidence in Linguistics: The case of innateness, Penke, Martina and Anette Rosenbach (eds.), pp. 117–138 | Article
What constitutes linguistic evidence for Universal Grammar (UG)? The principal approach to this question equates UG on the one hand with language universals on the other. Parsimonious and general characterizations of linguistic variation are assumed to uncover features of UG. This paper reviews a… read more
2004 From UG to Universals: Linguistic adaptation through iterated learning What Counts as Evidence in Linguistics?: The case of innateness, Penke, Martina and Anette Rosenbach (eds.), pp. 587–607 | Article
What constitutes linguistic evidence for Universal Grammar (UG)? The principal approach to this question equates UG on the one hand with language universals on the other. Parsimonious and general characterizations of linguistic variation are assumed to uncover features of UG. This paper reviews a… read more
2004 Author’s response What Counts as Evidence in Linguistics?: The case of innateness, Penke, Martina and Anette Rosenbach (eds.), pp. 612–614 | Article
1999 Constraints on Constraints, or the Limits of Functional Adaptation Functionalism and Formalism in Linguistics: Volume II: Case studies, Darnell, Michael, Edith A. Moravcsik, Michael Noonan, Frederick J. Newmeyer and Kathleen Wheatley (eds.), pp. 151–174 | Article