Jean-Louis Dessalles

List of John Benjamins publications for which Jean-Louis Dessalles plays a role.

Articles

Dessalles, Jean-Louis 2010 From metonymy to syntax in the communication of eventsThe Emergence of Protolanguage: Holophrasis vs compositionality, Arbib, Michael A. and Derek Bickerton (eds.), pp. 51–65 | Article
A modular analysis of spontaneous language use provides support for the existence of an identifiable step in language evolution, protolanguage. Our suggestion is that a grammarless form of expression would have evolved to signal unexpected events, a behavior still prevalent in our species. Words… read more
Dessalles, Jean-Louis 2008 From metonymy to syntax in the communication of eventsHolophrasis vs Compositionality in the Emergence of Protolanguage, Arbib, Michael A. and Derek Bickerton (eds.), pp. 51–65 | Article
A modular analysis of spontaneous language use provides support for the existence of an identifiable step in language evolution, protolanguage. Our suggestion is that a grammarless form of expression would have evolved to signal unexpected events, a behavior still prevalent in our species. Words… read more