>I am looking for references on evolutionary approaches in linguistics
Let me supply one that most people will not be aware of.
I am pleased to announce a new journal, published by John Benjamins
Publishing Co. (Amsterdam), called "Evolution of Communication." The focus
of this journal is on cross-disciplinary approaches to the study of
evolution of communication across various species, including but certainly
not limited to the evolution of human language. We intend the journal to
have a wide scope, including theoretical and empirical studies, from a
variety of disciplines including linguistics, biology, anthropology,
primatology, developmental and evolutionary psychology, artificial life,
neuroscience, and cognitive science.
The editorial board currently includes:
Barbara J. King, U.S. Associate Editor (primatology)
Luc Steels, European Associate Editor (artificial life)
David Armstrong (physical anthropology)
Bennett Galef (psychology, social learning in animals)
Kathleen Gibson (evolution of cognition and language)
John Haiman (linguistics)
Christine Johnson (cognitive science, primatology)
Michael Ryan (evolutionary biology)
Chris Sinha (psychology)
Eors Szathmary (evolutionary biology)
Michael Tomasello (psychology)
Anne Zeller (primatology)
I am General Editor for the journal.
The first issues of "Evolution of Communication" will appear in 1997. We of
course invite articles from readers of DARWIN-L. There is a small WWW site
(which I hope to expand soon) for the journal at:
http://www.unm.edu/~wilcox/EOC
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Sherman Wilcox
Dept. of Linguistics
University of New Mexico
Albuquerque, NM 87131
wilcox@unm.edu
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