The Biolinguistic Enterprise : New Perspectives on the Evolution and Nature of the Human Language Faculty (Hardcover)

From the contents: 1: Anna Maria Di Sciullo and Cedric Boeckx: Introduction: Contours of the Biolinguistic Research Agenda; Part One: Evolution; 2: Robert Berwick and Noam Chomsky: The Biolinguistic Program: The Current State of its Evolution; 3: Cedric Boeckx: Some Reflections on Darwin's Problem in the Context of Cartesian Biolinguistics; 4: Robert Berwick: Syntax Facit Saltum Redux: Biolinguistics and the Leap to Syntax; 5: Massimo Piatelli-Palmarini and Juan Uriagereka: A Geneticist's Dream, a Linguist's Nightmare: The Case of FOXP2; 6: Lyle Jenkins: Biolinguistic Investigations: Genetics and Dynamics; 7: Tecumseh Fitch: "Deep Homology" in the Biology and Evolution of Language; Part Two: Variation; 8: Lyle Jenkins: The Three factors in Evolution and variation; 9: Charles Yang: Three Factors in Language Variation; 10: Cedric Boeckx: Approaching Parameters from Below; 11: Rita Manzini and Leonardo Savoia: (Bio)linguistic Diversity; 12: Giuseppe Longobardi and Cristina Guardiano: The Biolinguistic Program and historical Reconstruction; 13: Anna Maria Di Sciullo: A Biolinguistic Approach to Variation; Part Three: Computation; 14: Richard Kayne: Antisymmetry and the Lexicon; 15: Howard Lasnik: What Kind of Computing Device is the Human Language Faculty?; 16: Richard Larson: Clauses, Propositions, and Phases; 17: Alessandra Giorgi: Reflections on the Optimal Solution: On the Syntactic Representation of Indexicality; 18: Wolfram Hinzen: Emergence of a Systemic Semantics Through Minimal and underspecified Codes; 19: Carlo Cecchetto and Costanza Papagno: Bridging the Gap Between Brain and Syntax. A Case for a Role of the Phonological Loop; 20: Robert Berwick: All you Need is Merge: Biology, Computation, and language from the Bottom-up; References; Index