Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Preface xv
4. 1. Language as a biological adaptation 1
5. 2. The bounds of generativity and the adaptive basis of variation 31
6. 3. The demise of competence 71
7. 4. Human language as an evolutionary product 123
8. 5. An evolutionary account of language processing rates 163
9. 6. The diachronic foundations of language universals 203
10. 7. The neuro-cognitive interpretation of ‘context’: Anticipating other minds 223
11. 8. The grammar of the narrator’s perspective in fiction 261
12. 9. The society of intimates 301
13. 10. On the ontology of academic negativity 333
14. Epilogue: Joseph Greenberg as a theorist 345
15. Bibliography 355
16. Index 377