Chris Sinha
2009
Language as a biocultural niche and social institutionPDF
New directions in cognitive linguistics, pages 289--310, 2009
Grammars... refer to real structures, though not to psychologically real structures in the processing sense... a grammar is a description of our knowledge of a social institution-the language-and because of this basis in social or institutional reality, rather than in cognitive ...MORE ⇓
Grammars... refer to real structures, though not to psychologically real structures in the processing sense... a grammar is a description of our knowledge of a social institution-the language-and because of this basis in social or institutional reality, rather than in cognitive ...
2004
The Evolution of Language: From Signals to Symbols to System
Evolution of Communication Systems: A Comparative Approach, pages 217-236, 2004
Human natural languages are communicative systems, and the primary use of language is to communicate. The precise nature of the relationship between the communicative functions and the systemic properties of natural languages may be disputed, but what ...