The present volume offers a collection of essays covering a broad range of areas where currently a rapprochement between linguistics and biology is actively being sought. Following a certain tradition, we call this attempt at a synthesis biolinguistics. The nine chapters (grouped into three parts: Language and Cognition, Language and the Brain, and Language and the Species) offer a comprehensive overview of issues at the forefront of biolinguistic research, such as language structure; language development; linguistic change and variation; language disorders and language processing; the cognitive, neural and genetic basis of linguistic knowledge; or the evolution of the Faculty of Language. Each contribution highlights exciting prospects for the field, but they also point to significant obstacles along the way. The main conclusion is that the age of theoretical exclusivity in Linguistics, much like the age of theoretical specificity, will have to end if interdisciplinarity is to reign and if biolinguistics is to flourish.
Author(s): Cedric Boeckx, María del Carmen Horno-Chéliz, José-Luis Mendívil-Giró (eds.)
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Year: 2012
Language: English
Pages: viii+392
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C. Boeckx, M.C. Horno-Chéliz and J.L. Mendívil-Giró: Introduction: Integrating Linguistics and Biology
Part I: Language and Cognition
Joana Rosselló and Txuss Martín: Introduction to Part I: For an Approach to Language with Biocognitive Import: The Dismissal of Specificity and Other Issues
1 Cedric Boeckx: The I-language Mosaic
2 Víctor M. Longa and Guillermo Lorenzo: Theoretical Linguistics meets Development: Explaining FL from an Epigeneticist Point of View
3 José-Luis Mendívil-Giró: The Myth of Language Diversity
Part II: Language and the Brain
María del Carmen Horno-Chéliz: Introduction to Part II: Looking for Language into the Brain
4 Fernando Cuetos: The Role of Aphasic Disorders in the Study of the Brain–language Relationship
5 Cristina Baus and Manuel Carreiras: Word Processing
6 Itziar Laka: More than One Language in the Brain
Part III: Language and the Species
Sergio Balari: Introduction to Part III: Up the Cudgels for Lenneberg!
7 Antonio Benítez-Burraco: The “Language Genes”
8 Guillermo Lorenzo: The Evolution of the Faculty of Language
9 Bridget Samuels: Animal Minds and the Roots of Human Language
