Preface

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Preface vii
4. Is a holistic protolanguage a plausible precursor to language? A test case for a modern evolutionary linguistics 1
5. Proto-discourse and the emergence of compositionality 19
6. Protolanguage in ontogeny and phylogeny: Combining deixis and representation 35
7. From metonymy to syntax in the communication of events 51
8. The "complex first" paradox: Why do semantically thick concepts so early lexicalize as nouns? 67
9. Holophrastic protolanguage: Planning, processing, storage, and retrieval 83
10. Protolanguage reconstructed 99
11. Growth points from the very beginning 117
12. The roots of linguistic organization in a new language 133
13. Holophrasis and the protolanguage spectrum 153
14. But how did protolanguage actually start ? 167
15. Name index 175
16. Subject index 179