Darwinian Biolinguistics

1. Introduction
Antonino Pennisi, Alessandra Falzone

Part I. History and State of the Art

2. Chomsky and Biolinguistics
Antonino Pennisi, Alessandra Falzone

3. The Last Chomsky and the Evolutionary Perspective
Antonino Pennisi, Alessandra Falzone

4. The Update of the Biolinguistic Agenda

Antonino Pennisi, Alessandra Falzone

5. Another Biolinguistics History: From Aristotle to Darwin
Antonino Pennisi, Alessandra Falzone

Part II. Towards a Darwinian Biolinguistics

6. Comparing Two Models: CBM vs DBM
Antonino Pennisi, Alessandra Falzone

7. The Nature of the Species-specificity of Human Language
Antonino Pennisi, Alessandra Falzone

8. Genetic Fundamentals
Antonino Pennisi, Alessandra Falzone

9. Morphological Fundamentals
Antonino Pennisi, Alessandra Falzone

10. Neurocerebral Fundamentals
Antonino Pennisi, Alessandra Falzone

Part III. Extended Performativity: From Brain Plasticity to Linguistic Pragmatics

11. Performance
Antonino Pennisi, Alessandra Falzone

12. Functional Plasticity
Antonino Pennisi, Alessandra Falzone

13. Evolutionary Plasticity
Antonino Pennisi, Alessandra Falzone

14. Bio-Linguistic Plasticity and Origin of Language
Antonino Pennisi, Alessandra Falzone

15. The Boundaries of Biolinguistics
Antonino Pennisi, Alessandra Falzone

16. Pragmatics and Biolinguistics
Antonino Pennisi, Alessandra Falzone

Keywords: Linguistics, Semantics, Philosophy of Language, Psycholinguistics