Table of contents
Introduction.
Self-organization and selection in cultural language evolution
Part I.
Emergence of perceptually grounded vocabularies
Language strategies for color
Emergent mirror systems for body language
The co-evolution of basic spatial terms and categories
Multi-dimensional meanings in lexicon formation
Part II. Emergence of grammatical systems
The evolution of case systems for marking event structure
Emergent functional grammar for space
The emergence of internal agreement systems
A language strategy for aspect: Encoding Aktionsarten through morphology
The emergence of quantifiers
Index
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