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Document Details : Title: Darwinian Linguistics Author(s): DROSTE, Flip G. Journal: Leuvense Bijdragen - Leuven Contributions in Linguistics and Philology Volume: 96 Date: 2007-2010 Pages: 9-62 DOI: 10.2143/LB.96.0.2071281 Abstract : The origin and development of human language fits perfectly into the Darwinian theory. Language is based, in a cognitive as well as a communicative sense, on universal principles essential to life in the whole of the animal world. However, with the realization of the sentence as the maxim of truth and the text as the maxim of logic, the purely representative function is receding in favour of newly created mental worlds. |
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