In:Bio-Linguistics: The Santa Barbara lectures
T. Givón
[Not in series 113] 2002
► pp. v–xiv
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Published online: 19 December 2002
https://doi.org/10.1075/z.113.toc
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Table of contents
Prefacexv
1. Language as a biological adaptation
2. The bounds of generativity and the adaptive basis of variation
3. The demise of competence
4. Human language as an evolutionary product
5. An evolutionary account of language processing rates
6. The diachronic foundations of language universals
7. The neuro-cognitive interpretation of ‘context’: Anticipating other minds
8. The grammar of the narrator’s perspective in fiction
9. The society of intimates
10. On the ontology of academic negativity
Epilogue: Joseph Greenberg as a theorist
Bibliography
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