Bio-linguistics the Santa Barbara lectures - Givón, Talmy (J. Benjamins Pub. Co., 2002)
Includes bibliographical references (pages 355-375) and index
Language as a biological adaptation -- The bounds of generativity and the adaptive basis of variation -- The demise of competence -- Human language as an evolutionary product -- An evolutionary account of language processing rates -- The diachronic foundations of language universals -- The neuro-cognitive interpretation of "context" : anticipating other minds -- The grammar of the narrator's perspective in narrative fiction -- The society of intimates -- On the ontology of academic negativity