Publications

Authors:

Tomaselli, Alessandra; Bidese, E.; Padovan, Andrea

Title:

Against Protolanguage

Year:

2012

Type of item:

Contributo in atti di convegno

Tipologia ANVUR:

Contributo in Atti di convegno

Language:

Inglese

Format:

A Stampa

Congresso:

EVOLANG IX

Place:

KYOTO

Period:

13-16 marzo 2012

ISBN:

9784990634001

Page numbers:

34-36

Keyword:

Protolanguage; Merge; Language Evolution

Short description of contents:

Since Hauser-Chomsky-Fitch (2002) the operation Merge has been taken to be the discriminating boundary between language and non-language. In our talk, we propose some reflections on the simplest stage of this syntactic mechanism, namely the so-called Head-head Merge (Primary Merge in Rizzi’s 2010 Complexity Scale), showing that silent functional categories must be necessarily assumed in order to explain the realization of the most basic hierarchical structure. In this perspective the notion of “protolanguage” turns out to be as contradictory as the notion of “protogrammar”.

Web page:

http:// ìkyoto.evolang.org/

Product ID:

66858

Handle IRIS:

11562/394735

Deposited On:

April 2, 2012

Last Modified:

November 1, 2022

Bibliographic citation:

Tomaselli, Alessandra; Bidese, E.; Padovan, Andrea, Against Protolanguage  in Five approaches to Language Evolution , Proceedings of "EVOLANG IX" , KYOTO , 13-16 marzo 2012 , 2012 , pp. 34-36

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