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Tracking Language Evolution as an Interdisciplinary, Cross-Theoretical Enterprise
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Published version: DOI:10.1075/elt.2.2 Terms of use: Open Access
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Tracking Language Evolution
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volume 2 number 2
2020
issn 2589-1588 / e-issn 2589-1596
John Benjamins Publishing Company
CONTENTS
Introduction: Language evolution as a cross-theoretical enterprise Livio Gaeta
ARTICLES
A complex system approach to language evolution: The case of regular versus irregular verbs in English
Francesca Colaiori and Francesca Tria
What are the determinants of survival curves of words? An evolutionary linguistics approach
Freek Van de Velde and Alek Keersmaekers
Reconsidering subjectification from the perspective of animal signalling Nikolaus Ritt, Andreas Baumann, Eva Zehentner and Alexandra Zöpfl Construction grammar for monkeys? Animal communication and its implications for language evolution in the light of usage-based linguistic theory
Michael Pleyer and Stefan Hartmann
Co-evolution of internalization and externalization in the emergence of the human lexicon: A perspective from generative grammar and cognitive linguistics
Haruka Fujita
Cover design by Françoise Berserik
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issn 2589-1588 / e-issn 2589-1596 AIMS AND SCOPE
Evolutionary Linguistic Theory (ELT) is an international double-blind peer-reviewed journal intended as a platform for discussing the question of the origin and development of the language faculty understood as a specifically dedicated part of the human mind/ brain and its connection with the human cognition. The specificity of the journal is to contribute to the ongoing debate on language origin from an explicitly linguistic viewpoint which examines its complex subject from a well-grounded knowledge in theoretical linguistics (with its subsystems, psycholinguistics, neurolinguistics, language acquisition and language change, historical linguistics and philosophy of language), and reaching out into the contiguous scientific disciplines, as psychology, philosophy and cognitive neuroscience.
In the following we give a not exhaustive list of matters ELT is concerned with:
• The design of the language faculty
• The role of the lexicon in the architecture of the language faculty
• The role of categorization and features for the origin of language
• The question of protolanguage
• Language and thought
• Language, music and action from an evolutionary perspective
• Language and other cognitive domains like vision and spatiality from an evolutionary
perspective
• The connection between the internal reality molded by language and the external world
• Language and the origin of consciousness and subjectness
• Language and shared intentionality
• Historical perspectives on the question about the origin of language
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