Theoretical Frameworks for Studying the Origins and Evolution of Human Language

About this project

Japan Grant Number
JP17H06379
Funding Program
Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research
Funding organization
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science
Project/Area Number
17H06379
Research Category
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research on Innovative Areas (Research in a proposed research area)
Allocation Type
  • Single-year Grants
Review Section / Research Field
  • Complex systems
Research Institution
  • Kyoto University
Project Period (FY)
2017-06-30 〜 2022-03-31
Project Status
Completed
Budget Amount*help
128,050,000 Yen (Direct Cost: 98,500,000 Yen Indirect Cost: 29,550,000 Yen)

Research Abstract

In exploring the origins of evolution of uniquely human language and linguistic communication, our project provided novel ideas as working hypotheses for the other projects in the same “Evolinguistics” project. Together, we critically examined those hypotheses in an interdisciplinary collaboration, revising them into more plausible ones. We took hierarchy and intention sharing as two major factors in language evolution and aimed to understand them in a unified manner. We achieved this goal by transcending the surface opposition of generative grammar and cognitive linguistics and integrated the advantages of these approaches with latest advancement in phonology, historical linguistics, neurolinguistics, biolinguistics, etc., which itself is a major unprecedented innovation in linguistics.

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