Ten Lectures on Cognitive Evolutionary Linguistics /
Verhagen, Arie,
Ten Lectures on Cognitive Evolutionary Linguistics / Arie Verhagen. - 1 online resource. - Distinguished Lectures in Cognitive Linguistics ; 24 Language and Linguistics E-Books Online, Collection 2021, ISBN: 9789004441194 . - Distinguished Lectures in Cognitive Linguistics ; 24. Language and Linguistics E-Books Online, Collection 2021, ISBN: 9789004441194. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
In these lectures, Arie Verhagen presents a version of cognitive linguistics that adheres to both the generalization and cognitive commitments that characterized the field from the start, and a biological commitment: understanding language as adaptive behavior of (human) organisms in the niche(s) that they inhabit. Drawing on the model of biological explanation ("Tinbergen's four why's"), Verhagen shows how proximate (individual level) and ultimate (population level) explanations apply to several features of language, shedding new light on basic notions like conventionality and entrenchment, norms/rules and habits, etc., and their causal connections. Topics include the relation between language, culture, and thinking, the role of language in social cognition and narrative, the evolution of sound structure and grammar, semantic change, and more.
9789004422353 9789004422346
10.1163/9789004422353 DOI
Cognitive grammar.
Linguistics.
P165
415
Ten Lectures on Cognitive Evolutionary Linguistics / Arie Verhagen. - 1 online resource. - Distinguished Lectures in Cognitive Linguistics ; 24 Language and Linguistics E-Books Online, Collection 2021, ISBN: 9789004441194 . - Distinguished Lectures in Cognitive Linguistics ; 24. Language and Linguistics E-Books Online, Collection 2021, ISBN: 9789004441194. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
In these lectures, Arie Verhagen presents a version of cognitive linguistics that adheres to both the generalization and cognitive commitments that characterized the field from the start, and a biological commitment: understanding language as adaptive behavior of (human) organisms in the niche(s) that they inhabit. Drawing on the model of biological explanation ("Tinbergen's four why's"), Verhagen shows how proximate (individual level) and ultimate (population level) explanations apply to several features of language, shedding new light on basic notions like conventionality and entrenchment, norms/rules and habits, etc., and their causal connections. Topics include the relation between language, culture, and thinking, the role of language in social cognition and narrative, the evolution of sound structure and grammar, semantic change, and more.
9789004422353 9789004422346
10.1163/9789004422353 DOI
Cognitive grammar.
Linguistics.
P165
415