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A Gradualist Scenario for Language Evolution: Precise Linguistic Reconstruction of Early Human (and Neandertal) Grammars

机译：语言进化的渐进方案：早期人类（和尼安德特人）文法的精确语言重构

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In making an argument for the antiquity of language, based on comparative evidence, Dediu and Levinson (2013) express hope that some combinations of structural features will prove so conservative that they will allow deep linguistic reconstruction. I propose that the earliest stages of syntax/grammar as reconstructed in Progovac (2015a), based on a theoretical and data-driven linguistic analysis, provide just such a conservative platform, which would have been commanded also by Neandertals and the common ancestor. I provide a fragment of this proto-grammar, which includes flat verb-noun compounds used for naming and insult (e.g., rattle-snake, cry-baby, scatter-brain), and paratactic (loose) combinations of such flat structures (e.g., Come one, come all; You seek, you find). This flat, binary, paratactic platform is found in all languages, and can be shown to serve as foundation for any further structure building. However, given the degree and nature of variation across languages in elaborating syntax beyond this proto-stage, I propose that hierarchical syntax did not emerge once and uniformly in all its complexity, but rather multiple times, either within Africa, or after dispersion from Africa. If so, then, under the uniregional hypothesis, our common ancestor with Neandertals, H. heidelbergensis, could not have commanded hierarchical syntax, but “only” the proto-grammar. Linguistic reconstructions of this kind are necessary for formulating precise and testable hypotheses regarding language evolution. In addition to the hominin timeline, this reconstruction can also engage, and negotiate between, the fields of neuroscience and genetics, as I illustrate with one specific scenario involving FOXP2 gene.
机译：在比较证据的基础上，Dediu和Levinson（2013）在论证语言的古代性时表示希望，结构特征的某些组合将非常保守，以至于可以进行深层的语言重构。我建议在Progovac（2015a）中重构的语法/语法的最早阶段，基于理论和数据驱动的语言分析，可以提供这样一个保守的平台，这也是尼安德特人和共同祖先的命令。我提供了此原型语法的一部分，其中包括用于命名和侮辱的扁平动词-名词化合物（例如，嘎嘎声，哭泣婴儿，分散脑），以及此类扁平结构的对位（松散）组合（例如， ，来一个，来所有;您寻找，您找到）。这个扁平的，二进制的，同理的平台可以在所有语言中找到，并且可以显示为进一步构建结构的基础。但是，考虑到跨语言在阐述此原型阶段之外的语法时会有所不同的程度和性质，我建议，分层语法并不是在其所有复杂性中一次又一次地出现，而是在非洲内部或从非洲驱散之后多次出现。 。如果是这样的话，那么在单区域假设下，我们与尼安德特人的共同祖先海德堡（H. heidelbergensis）不可能命令等级语法，而只能“命令”原始语法。这种语言重构对于形成关于语言进化的精确且可检验的假设是必要的。除了人参素的时间表，这种重建还可以参与神经科学和遗传学领域的研究，并在它们之间进行协商，正如我在涉及FOXP2基因的一种特定情况下所说明的那样。

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