Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/1228
Title: Beyond mysticism? Review of Jackendoff, R. (2002) Foundations of Language, Brain, Meaning, Grammar, Evolution
Contributor(s): Davidson, Iain  (author)orcid 
Publication Date: 2005
DOI: 10.1558/lhs.2005.1.2.337
Handle Link: https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/1228
Abstract: At the Fourth International conference on the Evolution of Language in 2002 at Harvard University (Hurford and Fitch, 2002), Marc Hauser and Michael Studdert-Kennedy joined Noam Chomsky in a roundtable discussion of the evolution of language. Given Chomsky’s famous disdain for evolutionary arguments, this was an event to be witnessed. Alas, it was not enlightening. Chomsky dismissed every suggestion about evolution and language as a ‘fairy story’, prompting one scholar in the field to observe that ‘any discipline that cannot give any account of its long history is itself a fairy story’. This view about the evolutionary origins of language is as important as Jackendoff’s emphasis (p.18) on its complexity: ‘One need not have an account of all of it, but one may not wilfully ignore it and still expect to be allowed in the game’.
Publication Type: Journal Article
Source of Publication: Linguistics and the Human Sciences, 1(2), p. 337-346
Publisher: Equinox Publishing Ltd
Place of Publication: United Kingdom
ISSN: 1743-1662
1742-2906
Fields of Research (FoR) 2008: 210199 Archaeology not elsewhere classified
HERDC Category Description: C2 Non-Refereed Article in a Scholarly Journal
Publisher/associated links: http://www.equinoxjournals.com/ojs/index.php/LHS/article/view/203/970
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