Progress in Biolinguistics
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- Fujita Koji
- Graduate School of Human and Environmental Studies, Kyoto University
Bibliographic Information
- Other Title
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- 生物言語学の展開
- － Geneses of Language - A View from Generative Grammar －
- -生成文法から見た言語発生の諸問題-
Abstract
<p>Generative grammar constitutes one major branch of theoretical linguistics, but its more important role as biolinguistics can be found in the interdisciplinary field of human biology. By exploring one particular instance of the cognitive faculties of our species, i.e, the Language Faculty (or the Language Organ), researchers in generative grammar/biolinguistics aim to elucidate the fundamental properties of human intelligence, or human nature itself. In this paper, we overview the main topics of generative grammar/biolinguistics to see how deeply they are intertwined with those of modern biology. In particular, we take a new and enlightening look at the familiar issues of the nature, acquisition and evolution of the human language, its universality and diversity, and its economy and redundancy. These are here rephrased in terms of three different levels of genesis of language, i.e., microgenesis, ontogenesis, and phylogenesis, in the hope that their possible unification may be forthcoming.</p>
Journal
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- Viva Origino
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Viva Origino 31 (2), 104-121, 2003
The Society for the Study of the Origin and Evolution of Life Japan
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Details 詳細情報について
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- CRID
- 1390291167482340736
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- NII Article ID
- 130008163019
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- ISSN
- 13466933
- 09104003
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- Text Lang
- ja
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- Data Source
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- JaLC
- CiNii Articles
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- Abstract License Flag
- Allowed