1: Rudolf Botha and Martin Everaert: Introduction: evidence and
inference in the study of language evolution
2: Stephen R. Anderson: What is special about the human language
faculty and how did it get that way?
3: Morten H. Christiansen: Language has evolved to depend on
multiple-cue integration
4: Ann Senghas, Asli Ozyürek, and Susan Goldin-Meadow: Homesign as
a way-station between co-speech gesture and sign language: the
evolution of segmenting and sequencing
5: Maggie Tallerman: Kin selection, pedagogy and linguistic
complexity: whence protolanguage?
6: Katharine MacDonald and Wil Roebroeks: Neanderthal linguistic
abilities: an alternative view
7: Thomas Wynn, Frederick L. Coolidge, and Karenleigh Overmann: The
archaeology of number concept and its implications for the
evolution of language
8: Peter Gärdenfors: The evolution of semantics: sharing conceptual
domains
9: Jacques Vauclair and Hélène Cochet: Speech-gesture links and the
ontogeny and phylogeny of gestural communication
10: Alban Lemasson, Karim Ouattara, and Klaus Zuberbühler:
Exploring the gaps between primate calls and human language
11: Kathleen R. Gibson: Talking about apes, birds, bees, and other
living creatures: language evolution in light of comparative animal
behaviour
12: Alan Langus, Jana Petri, Marina Nespor, and Constance Scharff:
FoxP2 and deep homology in the evolution of birdsong and human
language
13: Karl C. Diller and Rebecca L. Cann: Genetics, evolution, and
the innateness of language
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Rudolf Botha is Professor of General Linguistics at the University
of Stellenbosch, and a Fellow of the Netherlands Institute for
Advanced Study. His books include Form and Meaning in Word
Formation: A Study of Afrikaans Reduplication (CUP 1988),
Unravelling the Evolution of Language (Elsevier 2003) and,
co-edited with C. Knight, The Cradle of Language and The Prehistory
of Language (both OUP 2009). Martin Everaert is Professor
of Linguistics and Director of the Institute of Linguistics at the
University of Utrecht. His research interests include syntactic
theory and the lexicon-syntax interface and his books The Syntax of
Reflexivization, (Dordrecht: Foris
1986) and, as co-editor, The Unaccusativity Puzzle (OUP 2004), The
Blackwell Companion to Syntax (2007), and The Theta Sytsem (OUP
2012).
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