"Linguistic: Five Questions in Biolinguistics" Kleanthes K. Grohmann

Kleanthes K. Grohmann - University of Cyprus

Linguistic: Five Questions in Biolinguistics 

This component lays out the emerging field of biolinguistics along five ‘foundational questions’: (1) What is knowledge of language? (2) How is that knowledge acquired? (3) How is that knowledge put to use?  (4) How is that knowledge implemented in the brain? (5) How did that knowledge emerge in the species? The answers suggested will be put in their ontological context and illustrated with current research results. The goal is to provide explicit answers to questions that necessarily require the combination of linguistic insights and insights from related disciplines such as evolutionary biology, genetics, neurology, and psychology, thereby situating biolinguistics firmly in the realm of cognitive neuroscience.