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International Studies in Phenomenology and Philosophy

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The cultural individuation of human language capacity and the morphogenesis of basic argument-schemata

Wolfgang Wildgen

pp. 93-110

Abstract

Language capacity unites all existent human populations. Therefore its morphogenetic field must have originated with the species Homo sapiens (ca. 200,000 y BP). We assume that at the origin this field was only poorly expressed (via some protolanguage), but unfolded with the rise of human cultures (technologies, art, myth and other symbolic media). This development occurred in the last 100,000 y. In this context, Thom's criticism of evolutionary theory in Darwinian terms can be reconsidered. He accepts the Darwinian principles but adds the role of morphogenesis and individuation. This article sketches the morphogenesis of basic sentence (argument) structures applying results of morphodynamics and the individuation of linguistic tools in phonemics, lexicon and grammar.

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Sarti Alessandro, Montanari Federico, Galofaro Francesco (2015) Morphogenesis and individuation. Dordrecht, Springer.

Pages: 93-110

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-05101-7_5

Full citation:

Wildgen Wolfgang (2015) „The cultural individuation of human language capacity and the morphogenesis of basic argument-schemata“, In: A. Sarti, F. Montanari & F. Galofaro (eds.), Morphogenesis and individuation, Dordrecht, Springer, 93–110.