Proto-language - Wikipedia
网页In the tree model of historical linguistics, a proto-language is a postulated ancestral language from which a number of attested languages are believed to have descended by evolution, forming a language family. Proto-languages are usually unattested, or partially attested at best.
The Oxford Handbook of Language Evolution - Oxford Academic
网页Protolanguage is seen as simpler than full language, with a proto-lexicon. Protolanguage may have utilized vocal, gestural, and mimed components. A compositional or lexical protolanguage consists of single protowords, initially uttered separately and slowly, and subsequently joined in short, fairly random sequences.
List of proto-languages - Wikipedia
网页Below is a partial list of proto-languages that have been reconstructed, ordered by geographic location.
Protolanguage - SpringerLink
网页2019年7月22日 · The term “protolanguage” occurs in the linguistics literature with two different meanings. One meaning of the term refers to a language (in general extinct) from which a family of modern languages is descended. An example is Latin, which gave rise to the Romance family of languages.
Constructing a protolanguage: reconstructing prehistoric …
网页2021年3月22日 · In this paper, we review the contribution of usage-based construction grammar approaches to language change and language evolution to the questions of (i) the structure and nature of prehistoric languages and (ii) how constructions in prehistoric languages emerged out of non-linguistic or protolinguistic communication.
The evolution of (proto-)language: Focus on mechanisms
网页2017年9月1日 · Protolanguage is one of the key terms in the field of language evolution, used to designate a hypothesised intermediate stage in the emergence of language present in extinct hominins: qualitatively different from non-human primate communication in possessing some, but not all, of the features that characterise modern language.
Introduction to Evolving (Proto)Language/s - ScienceDirect
网页2024年7月1日 · To understand the nature of protolanguage, some look for homologs in gene functionality, brain areas, or anatomical structures such as the supralaryngeal vocal tract; others point toward primates, their gestural, vocal, multimodal, and in later evolving hominins also their pantomimic communication systems; and still others draw parallels between...
Protolanguage and the “God particle” - ScienceDirect
网页2012年9月1日 · The present article investigates the cause of this disagreement and what it reveals about the nature of influential modern work on language evolution. It does this by analysing the case made by Derek Bickerton for the existence of protolanguage, as well as Noam Chomsky's case against the existence of protolanguage.
16 - How Protolanguage Became Language - Cambridge …
网页The present chapter presents the evolution of language as a sequence of three stages. The first stage is the derivation of the basic structure of syntax from a social calculus set up to handle reciprocal altruism (Section 2). The second stage consists of the long delay hypothesised between the birth of protolanguage and the emergence of true ...
Proto Language | Overview & Research Examples - Perlego
网页A proto language is a reconstructed ancestral language from which a group of related languages are believed to have evolved. Linguists use comparative methods to identify common features and reconstruct the vocabulary and grammar of proto languages.