The Emergence of Protolanguage: Holophrasis vs compositionality

1. Preface 2. Is a holistic protolanguage a plausible precursor to language? A test case for a modern evolutionary linguistics (by Smith, Kenny) 3. Proto-discourse and the emergence of compositionality (by Bowie, Jillian) 4. Protolanguage in ontogeny and phylogeny: Combining deixis and representation (by Greenfield, Patricia M.) 5. From metonymy to syntax in the communication of events (by Dessalles, Jean-Louis) 6. The "complex first" paradox: Why do semantically thick concepts so early lexicalize as nouns? (by Werning, Markus) 7. Holophrastic protolanguage: Planning, processing, storage, and retrieval (by Tallerman, Maggie) 8. Protolanguage reconstructed (by Smith, Andrew D.M.) 9. Growth points from the very beginning (by McNeill, David) 10. The roots of linguistic organization in a new language (by Aronoff, Mark) 11. Holophrasis and the protolanguage spectrum (by Arbib, Michael A.) 12. But how did protolanguage actually start? (by Bickerton, Derek) 13. Name index 14. Subject index