2019
DOI: 10.2478/yplm-2020-0002
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Natural/sexual selection: What’s language (evolution) got to do with it?

Abstract: By considering a specific scenario of early language evolution, here I advocate taking into account one of the most obvious players in the evolution of human language capacity: (sexual) selection. The proposal is based both on an internal reconstruction using syntactic theory, and on comparative typological evidence, directly bringing together, formal, typological, and evolutionary considerations. As one possible test case, transitivity is decomposed into evolutionary primitives of syntactic structure, reveali… Show more

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