Advances in Biolinguistics: The Human Language Faculty and Its Biological Basis - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 113889172X ISBN 13: 9781138891722

Publisher: Routledge, 2016

Synopsis

Biolinguistics is a highly interdisciplinary field that seeks the rapprochement between linguistics and biology. Linking theoretical linguistics, theoretical biology, genetics, neuroscience and cognitive psychology, this book offers a collection of chapters situating the enterprise conceptually, highlighting both the promises and challenges of the field, and chapters focusing on the challenges and prospects of taking interdisciplinarity seriously. It provides concrete illustrations of some of the cutting-edge research in biolinguistics and piques the interest of undergraduate students looking for a field to major in and inspires graduate students on possible research directions. It is also meant to show to specialists in adjacent fields how a particular strand of theoretical linguistics relates to their concerns, and in so doing, the book intends to foster collaboration across disciplines.

Chapter 1 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.

About this title

About the Author

Koji Fujita is Professor at the Graduate School of Human and Environmental Studies, Kyoto University.

Cedric Boeckx is an ICREA Research Professor at the Institutió Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats and is also associated with the University of Barcelona.

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 113889172X
• ISBN 13: 9781138891722
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 276
• Editor: Fujita Koji, Boeckx Cedric