Holophrasis vs Compositionality in the Emergence of Protolanguage

Special issue of Interaction Studies 9:1 (2008)

Editors

Michael A. Arbib | University of Southern California

Derek Bickerton

[Interaction Studies, 9:1] 2008. 184 pp.

Publishing status: Available

© John Benjamins Publishing Company

https://doi.org/10.1075/is.9.1

Table of Contents

Articles
Is a holistic protolanguage a plausible precursor to language? A test case for a modern evolutionary linguistics Kenny Smith	1–17
Proto-discourse and the emergence of compositionality Jillian Bowie	18–33
Protolanguage in ontogeny and phylogeny: Combining deixis and representation Patricia M. Greenfield, Heidi Lyn and E. Sue Savage-Rumbaugh	34–50
From metonymy to syntax in the communication of events Jean-Louis Dessalles	51–65
The “complex first” paradox: Why do semantically thick concepts so early lexicalize as nouns? Markus Werning	67–83
Holophrastic protolanguage: Planning, processing, storage, and retrieval Maggie Tallerman	84–99
Protolanguage reconstructed Andrew D.M. Smith	100–116
Growth points from the very beginning David McNeill, Susan D. Duncan, Jonathan Cole, Shaun Gallagher and Bennett Bertenthal	117–132
The roots of linguistic organization in a new language Mark Aronoff, Irit Meir, Carol A. Padden and Wendy Sandler	133–153
Holophrasis and the protolanguage spectrum Michael A. Arbib	154–168
But how did protolanguage actually start? Derek Bickerton	169–176

Subjects

Linguistics

Cognition and language

Evolution of language