Biological foundations of linguistic communication : towards a biocybernetics of language
by Thomas T. Ballmer
This is the second of two volumes - the first volume being Waltraud Brennenstuhl's Control and Ability (P&B III:4) - treating biocybernetical questions of language. This book starts out from an investigation of the (neuro-)biological relevancy of natural language from the point of view of grammar and the lexicon. Furthermore, the basic mechanisms of the self-organization of organisms in their environments are discussed, in so far as they lead to linguistic control and abilities.
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1. Preface, pV
2. Contents, pIX
3. 1. Linguistics and Biology, p1
4. Part I: Language and Biological Structure
5. 2. Neurobiology, Grammar and Lexicon, p15
6. 2.1 Two Kinds of Linguistics, p15
7. 2.2 Grammar and Neurology, p18
8. 2.3 An Ordering Procedure for Linguistic Information, p22
9. 2.4 Brain Structures, p24
10. 2.5 The Correlation between Verb Thesaurus Structure and the Stages of Development of the Central Organ, p27
11. 2.6 A Geometro-Dynamical Approach to Explanation, p28
12. Part II: The Evolution of Cognition and Communication, p35
13. 3. Dynamics of Action and Perception: Blastematics and Prorhematics, p37
14. 3.1 Language and Linguistics, p37
15. 3.2 On the Limits of Linguistics, p37
16. 3.3 A Research Programme, p38
17. 3.4 Contextual Evolution of Communicative Abilities, p41
18. 3.5 The Geometrizer, a Prototypical Example, p46
19. 3.6 A Prospect of the Blastematic Enterprise, p55
20. 3.7 Geometrizer, Blastematics and Prorhematics, p56
21. 3.8 Refining, Extending and Going Beyond the Geometrizer, p59
22. 3.9 Approaching Prorhematics, p79
23. 4. Philosophical and Methodological Issues in Biolinguistics, p95
24. 4.1 Two Philosophical Issues, p95
25. 4.2 Two Approaches to Knowledge: Philosophy and Wissenschaft, p103
26. 4.3 A Prioris, Logics and Induction, p107
27. 4.4 Blastematics and Philosophy, a Summary, p111
28. 4.5 The Evolutionary Basis of Blastematics, p112
29. 4.6 Logic and Induction, Again, p122
30. Notes, p125
31. References, p139
32. Subject Index, p149
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Biological foundations of linguistic communication : towards a biocybernetics of language