Linguistics and Evolution : A Developmental Approach (Hardcover)

Introduction: historiography's contribution to theoretical linguistics; Part I. Theoretical Considerations: 1. Language languaging; 2. Developmental systems theory; 3. A twist in the cognitive turn; Part II. A Developmental Systems Linguistics: 4. Evolutionary scenarios I, the standard story and the self-reproductionist script; 5. Evolutionary scenarios II, the emerging story and the self-realizationist script; 6. The ontogenic script begins; 7. The ontogenic script continues; Part III. What To Do Next: 8. Revisit, Skinner, Chomsky and construction grammar; 9. Revise, introductory linguistics textbooks.