Book Title

New Horizons in Evolutionary Linguistics

Editors

Peng Gang(Department of Chinese and Bilingual Studies), Wang Feng

Publisher

Chinese University Press of Hong Kong

Year of Publication

2017

ISSN

2409-2878

Introduction

The series of the international Conference in Evolutionary Linguistics (CIEL) have been successfully held for eight times in Guangzhou (1999), Tianjin, Shanghai, Beijing, Hong Kong, Xiamen, Tianjin, and Bloomington. The CIEL series have consolidated a platform for international interdisciplinary exchange on Evolutionary Linguistics, thereby promoting the development of this field of research. This monograph, New Horizons in Evolutionary Linguistics, includes selected revised papers from CIEL-4 held at Peking University in November 2012, and CIEL-5 held at The Chinese University of Hong Kong in August 2013. The 11 papers in this monograph all pertain to the broad spectrum of evolutionary linguistics.

Table of Contents

1. Foreword: The view from evolutionary linguistics -William S-Y. Wang 王士元
2. Preface -Peng Gang 彭刚; Wang Feng 汪锋
3. Mirror systems and more in evolving the language-ready brain -Michael A. Arbib
4. The direction of language contact and the analysis of linguistic typology -Chen Baoya 陈保亚; Tian Xiangsheng 田祥胜 
5. Dynamic attribute and change of Chinese lexicon -Chin-Chuan Cheng 郑锦全 
6. Metric learning for phylogenetic invariants: An algebraic approach to evolutionary -Nicholas Eriksson; Yao Yuan 姚远
7. Using computer simulation to study linguistic diffusion -Tao Gong 龚涛; Lan Shuai 帅兰
8. Multi-dimensional viewpoints on the origin of Tibetan tones -Kong Jiangping 孔江平
9. Human-denoting interrogative words in early Southern Min: Coexistence and evolution -Chinfa Lien 连金发
10. Language evolution, by exaptation, with the mind leading -Salikoko S. Mufwene
11. Syntactic-semantic change in Chinese: Processes of analogy, reanalysis, external borrowing -Alain Peyraube 贝罗贝
12. Nouns and verbs: evolution of grammatical forms -Shen Jiaxuan 沈家煊
13. The inexplicability principle and recognition of genetic relationship: To solve the controversy of Sino-Tai ‘five’ and ‘six’ -Wang Feng 汪锋
    

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