Joe J. Thompson

List of John Benjamins publications for which Joe J. Thompson plays a role.

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Jennings, Ray E. and Joe J. Thompson 2012 The biology of language and the epigenesis of recursive embedding Language as Social Coordination: An evolutionary perspective, Raczaszek-Leonardi, Joanna and Stephen J. Cowley (eds.), pp. 80–102 | Article
Theorists have oversold the usefulness of predicate logic and generative grammar to the study of language origins. They have searched for models that correspond to semantic properties, such as truth, when what is needed is an empirically testable model of evolution. Such a model is required if we… read more