The present volume offers a collection of essays covering a broad range of areas where currently a rapprochement between linguistics and biology is actively bei

Argues that biology plays a more central role in language acquisition than teaching or learning.

"Ruth Millikan presents a radically different way of viewing the partial regularities that language displays, the norms and conventions of language. The central

Leading scholars present critical accounts of every aspect of the field, including work in animal behaviour; anatomy, genetics and neurology; the prehistory of

The essays in this volume have been gathered together to honor Eric H. Lenneberg. Together they represent the broad range of topics in which he took some intere