Syntactic Theory and the Evolution of Syntax

Syntactic Theory and the Evolution of Syntax

Contemporary work on the evolution of syntax can be roughly divided into two perspectives. The incremental view claims that the evolution of syntax involved multiple stages between the non-combinatorial communication system of our last common ancestor with chimpanzees and modern human syntax. The sa...

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Main Author: Brady Clark
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: PsychOpen GOLD/ Leibniz Institute for Psychology 2013-04-01
Series:Biolinguistics
Subjects:
evolution
syntax
syntactic theory
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.5964/bioling.8961

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