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A Naturalist Reconstruction of Minimalist and Evolutionary Biolinguistics
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In: BIOLINGUISTICS; Vol. 4 No. 4 (2010); 356-376 ; 1450-3417 (2010)
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A Prospect for Evolutionary Adequacy: Merge and the Evolution and Development of Human Language
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In: BIOLINGUISTICS; Vol. 3 No. 2-3 (2009); 128-153 ; 1450-3417 (2009)
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Biolinguistic minimalism seeks a deeper explanation of the design, development and evolution of human language by reducing its core domain to the bare minimum including the set-formation operation Merge. In an attempt to open an avenue of research that may lead to an evolutionarily adequate theory of language, this article makes the following proposals: (i) Merge is the elementary combinatorial device that requires no more decomposition; (ii) the precursor to Merge may be found in the uniquely human capacity for hierarchical object manipulation; (iii) the uniqueness of the human lexicon may also be captured in terms of Merge. Empirical validations of these proposals should constitute one major topic for the biolinguistic program.
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action grammar; anti-lexicalism; evolutionary adequacy; FLN/ FLB; P; unbounded Merge
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URL: http://www.biolinguistics.eu/index.php/biolinguistics/article/view/94
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