Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Foreword vii
4. Introduction. Self-organization and selection in cultural language evolution 1
5. Part I. Emergence of perceptually grounded vocabularies
6. The Grounded Naming Game 41
7. Language strategies for color 61
8. Emergent mirror systems for body language 87
9. The co-evolution of basic spatial terms and categories 111
10. Multi-dimensional meanings in lexicon formation 143
11. Part II. Emergence of grammatical systems
12. The evolution of case systems for marking event structure 169
13. Emergent functional grammar for space 207
14. The emergence of internal agreement systems 233
15. A language strategy for aspect 257
16. The emergence of quantifiers 277
17. Index 305