An Old Subject's Great Escape from Recent Disciplinary Boundaries
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James Drake
Abstract
Alan Barnard's Language in Prehistory attempts to find an accommodation between linguistic and evolutionary theory and apply insights from archeology and anthropology to the origins and purposes of language. Rudolph Botha's Language Evolution: The Windows Approach is a critique of employing evidence from other fields. Botha also critiques conclusions drawn from pidgins and creoles, homesign, motherese, grammaticalization, language acquisition, protolanguage, and comparative animal behavior. This review attempts in turn to bring into question the appropriateness of applying the framework of generative linguistics, and its style of argumentation, to prehistory.
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- Front Matter
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- REVIEW ESSAYS
- Imagination, the Junkyard of the Mind
- Contemporary Evolutionary Aesthetics: The View from the Humanities (and Humanists)
- Language, Experience, and Imagination: The Invention and Evolution of Language
- An Old Subject's Great Escape from Recent Disciplinary Boundaries
- BOOK REVIEWS
- Aunger, Robert, and Valerie Curtis. 2015. Gaining Control: How Human Behavior Evolved.
- Byrne, Richard W. 2016. Evolving Insight: How It Is We Can Think about Why Things Happen.
- Gintis, Herbert. 2017. Individuality and Entanglement: The Moral and Material Bases of Social Life.
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