DESCENT WITH MODIFICATION

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  • Fujita Koji
    Graduate School of Human and Environmental Studies, Kyoto University

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  • 変化を伴う由来
  • - GENERATIVE GRAMMAR AND THE UNIVERSALITY/DIVERSITY OF HUMAN LANGUAGE -
  • - 生成文法による言語の普遍と多様の解読 -

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<p>  In sharp contrast to the highly modular theory of grammar advanced by Generative Grammar in the past, current Minimalist Program seeks to minimize the genetic component of the human language faculty, known as Universal Grammar. This radical shift of research strategy has the effect of placing the topic of the origins and evolution of language in the proper domain of evolutionary biology, by reducing the domain-specific, and therefore evolutionarily inexplicable part of the language faculty to the bare minimum. Through a detailed review of the development of phrase structure theory, this paper illustrates the tight connection between grammatical theorizing and evolutionary studies. The emerging picture is that language evolution is a good example of what Charles Darwin once called “descent with modification.”</p>

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  • Viva Origino

    Viva Origino 35 (4), 136-147, 2007

    The Society for the Study of the Origin and Evolution of Life Japan

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  • CRID
    1390009294965504640
  • NII Article ID
    130008142289
  • DOI
    10.50968/vivaorigino.35.4_136
  • ISSN
    13466933
    09104003
  • Text Lang
    ja
  • Article Type
    journal article
  • Data Source
    • JaLC
    • CiNii Articles
    • KAKEN
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