02382cam a2200277 a 45000010008000000030004000080050017000120080041000290100017000700200015000870400016001020500021001180820012001391000023001512450120001742600054002943000032003484400045003805000129004255000020005545040032005745051377006066500020019836500051020037000050020544291807OSt20190911145120.0850501s1982    ne a     b    001 0 eng c  a   85672523   a9027225206  aMHcMHdDLC14aP132b.B34x 1982  a401 BAL1 aBallmer, Thomas T.10aBiological foundations of linguistic communication :btowards a biocybernetics of language /cby Thomas T. Ballmer.  aAmsterdam ;aPhiladelphia :bJ. Benjamins,c1982.  ax, 161 p. :bill. ;c22 cm. 0aPragmatics & beyond,x0166-6258 ;vIII:7  a"Intended as a second volume to Waltraud Brennenstuhl's Control and ability : towards a biocybernetics of language"--P. vii.  aIncludes index.  aBibliography: p. [139]-149.  a1. Preface; 2. Contents; 3. 1. Linguistics and Biology; 4. Part I: Language and Biological Structure; 5. 2. Neurobiology, Grammar and Lexicon; 6. 2.1 Two Kinds of Linguistics; 7. 2.2 Grammar and Neurology; 8. 2.3 An Ordering Procedure for Linguistic Information; 9. 2.4 Brain Structures; 10. 2.5 The Correlation between Verb Thesaurus Structure and the Stages of Development of the Central Organ; 11. 2.6 A Geometro-Dynamical Approach to Explanation; 12. Part II: The Evolution of Cognition and Communication; 13. 3. Dynamics of Action and Perception: Blastematics and Prorhematics; 14. 3.1 Language and Linguistics; 15. 3.2 On the Limits of Linguistics; 16. 3.3 A Research Programme; 17. 3.4 Contextual Evolution of Communicative Abilities; 18. 3.5 The Geometrizer, a Prototypical Example; 19. 3.6 A Prospect of the Blastematic Enterprise; 20. 3.7 Geometrizer, Blastematics and Prorhematics; 21. 3.8 Refining, Extending and Going Beyond the Geometrizer; 22. 3.9 Approaching Prorhematics; 23. 4. Philosophical and Methodological Issues in Biolinguistics; 24. 4.1 Two Philosophical Issues; 25. 4.2 Two Approaches to Knowledge: Philosophy and Wissenschaft; 26. 4.3 A Prioris, Logics and Induction; 27. 4.4 Blastematics and Philosophy, a Summary; 28. 4.5 The Evolutionary Basis of Blastematics; 29. 4.6 Logic and Induction, Again; 30. Notes; 31. References; 32. Subject Index 0aBiolinguistics. 0aLanguage and languagesxPhysiological aspects.1 aBrennenstuhl, Waltraud.tControl and ability.