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Theory of Language & Debate on Language Origins

- Werner Abraham (U Wien/München), What are the guiding principles in the evolution of morphology: Paradigmatics or syntagmatics? What comes first? (PDF)

- Joana Rosselló Ximenes (U Barcelona), Language evolution without interfaces or the power of vocal learning (PDF)

- Andreas Trotzke (U Konstanz), Shared intentionality from the perspective of theoretical linguistics (PDF)

- Elisabeth Leiss (LMU München), Language, memory, and the human mind (PDF)

- Guido Seiler (LMU München), Duality of Patterning, structural well-formedness, and its relevance for language evolution (PDF)

- Andrea Moro (IUSS Pavia), The boundaries of Babel and beyond (PDF)

- Jacopo D'Alonzo (U Sorbonne-Nouvelle Paris 3), Tran Ðuc Thao: A Marxist Theory on Origins of Human Language? (PDF)

- Barbara Landau (U Johns Hopkings, Baltimore), The representation of paths in language and cognition: Universal asymmetries and their cause (PDF)

- Giorgio Graffi (U Verona), Origin of language and origin of languages (PDF)

- Stefano Cappa (IUSS Pavia / U San Raffaele, Milano), The contribution of neuroscience to the language evolution debate (PDF)

- Daniela Sammler (Max-Planck-Institut, Leipzig), Music and Action – Windows into the Origins of Language? (PDF)

- Caterina Donati (U Paris Diderot, Paris 7), Labels in Grammar (PDF)

- Denis Delfitto (U Verona), Negation as a window on the non-sequential nature of language interpretation and processing (PDF)