Biological foundations of linguistic communication towards a biocybernetics of language - Ballmer, Thomas T. 1945-1984 (J. Benjamins, 1982)
"Intended as a second volume to Waltraud Brennenstuhl's Control and ability : towards a biocybernetics of language"--Page vii
Includes bibliographical references (pages 139-149) and index
BIOLOGICAL FOUNDATIONS OF LINGUISTIC COMMUNICATION Towards a Biocybernetics of Language; Editorial page; Tilte page; Copyright page; PREFACE; Table of contents; 1. LINGUISTICS AND BIOLOGY; Part I: LANGUAGE AND BIOLOGICAL STRUCTUFOE; 2. NEUROBIOLOGY, GRAMMAR AND LEXICON; 2.1. Two Kinds of Linguistics; 2.2 Grammar and Neurology; 2.3. A Methodically Well-founded Ordering Procedure for Linguistic Information; MODELS; MODEL GROUPS; 2.4. Brain Structures; 2.5. The Correlation between Verb Thesaurus Structure and the Stages of Development of the Central Organ
This is the second of two volumes - the first volume being Waltraud Brennenstuhl's Control and Ability (P & B III:4) - treating biocybernetical questions of language. This book starts out from an investigation of the (neuro- )biological relevancy of natural language from the point of view of grammar and the lexicon. Furthermore, the basic mechanisms of the self-organization of organisms in their environments are discussed, in so far as they lead to linguistic control and abilities