FOUNDATIONAL ISSUES IN BIOLINGUISTICS

Catalog description

Critical review and analysis of the canonical issues and debates in biolinguistics such as the biological factors in language design, the architecture of the language faculty, universal grammar, recursion and innatism in language adquisition and development, linguistic competence within a comparative ethological context, the nature of the genetic endowment and evolution of the language faculty, the neurological implementation and computational models of the language components and interfaces. Discussion of the contributions of anthropology, psychology, molecular and evolutionary biology, neuroscience, and computational sciences to problems in theoretical linguistics, as well as the implications of findings in biolinguistics for some controversies in these disciplines.