Biological foundations and origin of syntax /

Forum held July 13-18, 2008, in Frankfurt, Germany.Includes bibliographical references and index.Syntax for non-syntacticians : a brief primer / Derek Bickerton -- The biological background of syntax evolution / Anna Fedor, Péter Ittzés, and Eörs Szathmáry -- Functional neuroimaging and the logic of brain operations : methodologies, caveats, and fundamental examples from language research / Balázs Gulyás -- Some elements of syntactic computations / Luigi Rizzi -- The adaptive approach to grammar / T. Givón -- Fundamental syntactic phenomena and their putative relation to the brain / Edith Kaan -- What kinds of syntactic phenomena must biologists, neurobiologists, and computer scientists try to explain and replicate? / Maggie Tallerman ... [et al.] -- Possible precursors of syntactic components in other species / Austin T. Hilliard and Stephanie A. White -- What can developmental language impairment tell us about the genetic bases of syntax? / Dorothy V.M. Bishop -- What are the possible biological and genetic foundations for syntactic phenomena? / Szabolcs Számadó ... [et al.] -- Brain circuits of syntax / Angela D. Friederici -- Neural organization for syntactic processing as determined by effects of lesions : logic, data, and difficult questions / David Caplan -- Reflections on the neurobiology of syntax / Peter Hagoort -- What are the brain mechanisms underlying syntactic operations? / Anna Fedor ... [et al.] -- Syntax as an adaptation to the learner / Simon Kirby, Morten H. Christiansen, and Nick Chater -- Cognition and social dynamics play a major role in the formation of grammar / Luc Steels -- What can formal or computational models tell us about how (much) language shaped the brain? / Ted Briscoe -- What can mathematical, computational, and robotic models tell us about the origin of syntax? / Herbert Jaeger ... [et al.]