On Biology, History and Culture in Human Language - A Critical Overview - Juan-Carlos Moreno

On Biology, History and Culture in Human Language - A Critical Overview - Juan-Carlos Moreno

Natural and cultivated languages: A necessary distinction

On Biology, History and Culture in Human Language - A Critical Overview - Juan-Carlos Moreno

Juan-Carlos Moreno [+-]
Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
Juan-Carlos Moreno is Professor of General Linguistics at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (Spain). He has also taken part as a scientific advisor in the World Languages Review project hosted by the UNESCO-Etxea (Basque Country). He has published 20 books on linguistics in Spanish and more than one hundred papers in Spanish and English.
José-Luis Mendívil-Giró [+-]
University of Zaragoza
José-Luis Mendívil-Giró is Professor of General Linguistics at the University of Zaragoza. His research has focused on the theory of grammar and the nature and extent of linguistic change and diversity. He was the main researcher of the project Typology and internal variation of the case & agreement systems in the world’s languages (Spanish Government). He is the author of Origen, evolución y diversidad de las lenguas (Peter Lang, 2009), and the editor (together with C. Boeckx and M. Horno) of Language, from a Biological Point of View (Cambridge Scholars, 2012).

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6.1 All human natural languages (spoken and signed) are direct manifestations of the human faculty of language; 6.2 All human natural languages (spoken and signed) belong to the same linguistic species; 6.3 All known human languages are in the same stage of linguistic evolution; 6.4 Language change is not language evolution; 6.5 All human natural languages (spoken and signed) present a similar degree of grammatical development; 6.6 All human natural languages (spoken and signed) can be spontaneously acquired by human infants; 6.7 All human natural languages (spoken and signed) are constrained in their competence and performance by the psycho-physiological limitations of human beings; 6.8 E-Languages are not natural languages; 6.9 Only I-Languages are grammatical competences; 6.10 Cultivated languages are not natural languages;

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Moreno, Juan-Carlos ; Mendívil-Giró, José-Luis . Natural and cultivated languages: A necessary distinction. On Biology, History and Culture in Human Language - A Critical Overview. Equinox eBooks Publishing, United Kingdom. p. 134-154 May 2014. ISBN 9781781790526. https://www.equinoxpub.com/home/view-chapter/?id=29282. Date accessed: 23 Apr 2024 doi: 10.1558/equinox.29282. May 2014

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