Books written by Derek Bickerton
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Lingua Ex Machina: Reconciling Darwin and Chomsky with the Human Brain
William Calvin and Derek Bickerton suggest that other evolutionary developments, not directly related to language, allowed language to evolve in a way that eventually promoted a Chomskian syntax.
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Kindred: 2018 Savant Poetry Anthology
... (Rowman and Littlefied 2005) KINGSLEY & I by Gary Martine (MLR Press 2008) KINGSLEY & I TOGETHER by Gary Martine (MLR Press, 2009) KINGSLEY & I RELOADED by Gary Martine (Createspace 2012) TOTAL MELTDOWN by Raymond Gaynor and William ...
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Language and Species
Drawing on "living linguistic fossils" such as "ape talk," the "two-word" stage of small children, and pidgin languages, and on recent discoveries in paleoanthropology, Bickerton shows how a primitive "protolanguage" could have offered Homo ...
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Language and Human Behavior
Bickerton argues that each of the properties distinguishing human intelligence and consciousness from that of other animals can be shown to derive straightforwardly from properties of language.
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Lingua Ex Machina: Reconciling Darwin and Chomsky with the Human Brain
... R. , 263 hidden patterns , 6 Hieranen , J. , 270 hierarchies , 10 , 248 Higginbotham , J. , 279 higher intellectual functions , 2,3 , 151 , 165 , 177 , 191 Joseph , 192 hippocampus , 57 , 69 , 249 , 255 Hockett , C. F. , 263 Holcomb ...
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More than Nature Needs
Starting from humankind's remotest past, More than Nature Needs transcends nativist thesis and empiricist antithesis by presenting a revolutionary synthesis that shows specifically and in a principled way how and why the synthesis came ...
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Roots of language
The book also proposed that the same set of properties would be found to emerge in normal first-language acquisition and must have emerged in the original evolution of language.
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Language and Human Behavior
“What this book proposes to do,” writes Derek Bickerton, “is to stand the conventional wisdom of the behavioral sciences on its head: instead of the human species growing clever enough to invent language, it will view that species as ...
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Bastard Tongues: A Trailblazing Linguist Finds Clues to Our Common Humanity in the World's Lowliest Languages
The story is told by Derek Bickerton, who has spent more than thirty years researching these languages on four continents and developing a controversial theory that explains why they are so similar to one another.
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Lingua ex machina: la conciliación de las teorías de Darwin y Chomsky sobre el cerebro humano
Written in the form of a dialogue set in Bellagio, Italy, Lingua ex Machina presents an engaging challenge to those who view the human capacity for language as a winner-take-all war between Chomsky and Darwin.
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Biological Foundations and Origin of Syntax
In this book, experts from linguistics, neurology and neurobiology, cognitive psychology, ecology and evolutionary biology, and computer modeling address this question.
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Language and Species
Language and Species presents the most detailed and well-documented scenario to date of the origins of language.
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Adam's Tongue: How Humans Made Language, How Language Made Humans
The renowned linguist author of Bastard Tongues presents a revisionist assessment of evolution that credits language as a key component in what separates humans from animals, in an account that explains how "power scavenging" forced early ...
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Ashley Bickerton
Die-cut pages, books bound within the book, and personal photos together communicate the artist s unique vision. NOTE about the artist: Ashley Bickerton was born in Barbados in the West Indies in 1959.