TY  - CHAP
A1  - Kortlandt, Frederik H. H.
T1  - The origin and nature of the linguistic parasite
T2  - Language in time and space [Fs. Winter]
N2  - 1. The functionalist’s view: linguistic forms are instruments used to convey meaningful elements. This is the basis of European structuralism. 2. The formalist’s view: linguistic forms are abstract structures which can be filled with meaningful elements. This is the basis of generative grammar. 3. The parasitologist’s view: linguistic forms are vehicles for the reproduction of meaningful elements. This is the view which I advocated twenty years ago in the Festschrift for Werner Winter’s 60th birthday (1985). Here I intend to discuss the evolutionary origin and the physiological nature of the linguistic parasite. My theory of language is wholly consistent with Gerald Edelman’s theory of neuronal group selection.
KW  - Evolutionstheorie
Y1  - 2010
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/14750
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30-1156878
UR  - http://www.kortlandt.nl/publications/art206e.pdf
N1  - Korrigierte Version , zuerst in: Language in time and space [Fs. Winter]. - Berlin: Mouton, 2003, S. 241-244
SP  - 241
EP  - 244
PB  - Mouton
CY  - Berlin
ER  -