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ジェイムズ・ハーフォード『意味の諸起源：進化の観点から見た言語』

The Origins of Meaning (Language In The Light Of Evolution)

著者ホームページ：http://www.ling.ed.ac.uk/~jim/

Preface

PART 1. Meaning Before Communication

1. Let's Agree on Terms

　1.1. Defining semantics with evolution in mind
　1.2. Health warning about 'concepts'
　1.3. A scale from no-brainers to cognitive cencepts

2. Animals Approach Human Cognition

　2.1. Induction, generalization, and abstraction
　2.2. Freewill, or at least some metacognition
　2.3. Objects permanence and displaced reference
　2.4. Biological motion and animacy
　2.5. Structured conceptual content and transitive inference
　2.6. Semantic memory, a store of non-linguistic knowledge
　2.7. Sensory-motor declarative-imperative co-involvement in concepts

3. A New Kind of Memory Evolves

　3.1. Episodic memory in animals: knowledge of the past and future
　3.2. Episodic momory and Kantian analytic/synthetic

4. Animals Form Proto-propositions

　4.1. The magical number 4 - how big is a simple thought?
　4.2. Predicate-argument structure in animal brains
　4.3. Local and global attention to objects and scenes
　4.4. Animal truth, reference and sense

5. Towards Human Semantics

　5.1. A parsimonious Begriffsschrift for proto-propositions
　5.2. Getting rid of individual constants
　5.3. Getting rid of ordered arguments and role-markers
　5.4. One-place predicates over scenes and objects
　5.5. Armchair ontology of objects, events, and scenes

Part II. Communication: What and Why?

6. Communication by Dyadic Acts

　6.1. Roughly and readily defining 'communication'
　6.2. Pragmatic origins
　6.3. Things animals do to each other
　6.4. Getting the right environmental conditions
　6.5. From innate to learned

7. Going Triadic: Precursors of Reference

　7.1. Early manipulation of attention
　7.2. Indexical/deictic pointing
　7.3. Standardized alarm and food calls
　7.4. Beyond innate symbols and learned deixis

8. Why Communicate? squaring with Evolutionary Theory

　8.1. Bridges, bullets, monsters, and niches
　8.2. Evolutionary theories of altruism and cooperation
　8.3. Evolutionary theories of selfish communication
　8.4. (Cultural) group selection

9. Cooperation, Fair Play, and Trust in Primates

　9.1. Mind-reading, a prerequisite for intentional cooperation
　9.2. Cooperation
　9.3. Fair Play
　9.4. Trust(-worthiness), groups, faces, and a hormone

10. Epilogue and Prologue

　Bibliograpy
　Index

関連ページをみていたら生成語彙論のパステジョヴスキーが「言語の起源」の講義を担当していて驚きました：

USEM 40a: Origins of Language
http://www.cs.brandeis.edu/~jamesp/classes/usem40a/index.html

ロナルド・ラネカー『認知文法：入門』

Cognitive Grammar: A Basic Introduction

目次は「認知言語学的メモ」の2008年02月01日記事に記載されています．