On the Biological Nature of Natural Language and other essays

Travaux linguistiques de Brno 4
The present volume contains six essays by Simeon Romportl, Professor Emeritus of the
University of Brno, in which the author deals with various fundamental linguistic concepts from the
point of view of evolutionary based linguistics: In memoriam Charles Darwin and August
Schleicher: Thinking of the times when linguistics was a science of the evolution of man; Remarks
in memoriam August Schleicher: 1 The problem of standard language, 2 Some criticisms of Schleicher;
On the biological nature of natural language; Linguistic idiosyncrasies and inherited taboos in the
ontology of language; At the beginning of the 21st century; On the mental function of language and
the asymmetrical character of the sign. The volume is accompanied by a complete bibliography of
Romportl’s writings.
 

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