Elly van Gelderen provides examples of linguistic cycles from a number of languages and
language families, along with an account of the linguistic cycle in terms of minimalist …

Most syntacticians, no matter their theoretical persuasion, agree that features (types or
categories) are the most important units of analysis. Within Chomskyan generative grammar …

This unique contribution to the ongoing discussion of language acquisition considers the
Argument from the Poverty of the Stimulus in language learning in the context of the wider …

This textbook explores the ways in which language informs the structure and function of the
human mind, offering a point of entry into the fascinating territory of cognitive science …

Since Juan Uriagereka originated the multiple spell-out model in 1999 it has been one of the
most influential lines of research in syntactic theorizing. The model simplified a crucial …

This book looks at how the human brain got the capacity for language and how language
then evolved. Its four parts are concerned with different views on the emergence of …

While language was traditionally considered a purely cultural trait, the advent of Noam
Chomsky's Generative Grammar in the second half of the twentieth century dramatically …

Biolinguistics aims to shed light on the specifically biological nature of human language,
focusing on five foundational questions:(1) What are the properties of the language …

In recent years, central components of a new approach to linguistics, the Minimalist Program
(MP) have come closer to physics. Features of the Minimalist Program, such as the …

This paper examines the origins of language, as treated within Evolutionary Anthropology,
under the light offered by a biolinguistic approach. This perspective is presented first. Next …