Is a holistic protolanguage a plausible precursor to language? A test case for a modern evolutionary linguistics Kenny Smith Northumbria University

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Workshop on the Feasibility of a Web-based Database of the Syntactic Structures of the World’s Languages Peter Cole November 9, 2007 Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology

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The Evolution of Evolutionary Linguistics

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WHAT’S NEXT? A (POSSIBLE) AGENDA FOR EVOLUTIONARY LINGUISTICS AFTER EVOLANG 9 CHRISTIAN BENTZ University of Cambridge, Department of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics, Sidgwick Avenue, Cambridge, CB3 9DA

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1 WILLIAM CROFT, Explaining Language Change. An Evolutionary Approach. Harlow: Pearson EducationXV, 287 S. (Longman Linguistics Library) Linguistics and biology are connected by a long history of mutual

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Language Evolution Edited by Morten H. Christiansen Simon Kirby

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THE BALDWIN EFFECT WORKS FOR FUNCTIONAL, BUT NOT ARBITRARY, FEATURES OF LANGUAGE MORTEN H. CHRISTIANSEN & FLORENCIA REALI Department of Psychology, Cornell University, Uris Hall, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA NICK CHATER

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The Evolutionary Trajectory of the Icelandic New Passive Anton Karl Ingason Julie Anne Legate University of Pennsylvania Summary We examine the diachronics of a new passive construction in Icelandic [1] and use Yang’s

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Generalizing Language Comparison Michael Cysouw Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig The method proposed in the target article by Croft & Poole (henceforth C&P) is an

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