In recent years linguists have gained new insight into human language capacities on the
basis of results from linguistics and biology. The so-called biolinguistic enterprise aims to fill …

The study of the biological foundations of language is sometimes called biolinguistics. This
particular term finds its historical origins in the 1950s, and for various reasons it has also …

In the first years of the new millennium, the word “biolinguistics” has rather suddenly come
into use as an umbrella term for various biological approaches to the study of human …

1.1 Purpose This article reviews an important set of issues concerning biology and grammar,
focusing on two recent books on this topic: The language organ, by Stephen Anderson & …

The present volume offers a collection of essays covering a broad range of areas where
currently a rapprochement between linguistics and biology is actively being sought …

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 …

This note highlights the Biolinguistics Network, its creation, and its role as a promising
avenue of research in the biological basis of the language faculty. It also provides insights …

This book, by leading scholars, represents some of the main work in progress in
biolinguistics. It offers fresh perspectives on language evolution and variation, new …

I welcome the opportunity that Stephen Anderson and David Lightfoot have afforded me
(Anderson & Lightfoot 2006) to express in more detail why I think that explaining human …

This paper discusses the widely held idea that the building blocks of languages (features,
categories, and architectures) are part of an innate blueprint for Human Language, and …