| Looking at Language Through a Biological Lens; Toward a Solution for the Unification Problem |
| Paper ID : 1079-ICIL |
| Authors |
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mostafa barzegar * 19, Daneshsara Street, Mahdiye, Varamin, Tehran |
| Abstract |
| Biolinguistics, the study of the biology of language, has been actively and fruitfully investigating the nature, development and evolution of the language faculty for approximately seventy years. The biolinguistic framework views language from a biological standpoint and consequently deems that the language faculty is essentially a biological object on a par with the rest of the natural world. A great deal of achievement has been gained through the years of research and a myriad of hypotheses have constructed the building blocks and the tenets of this relatively new enterprise. However, one issue which still seems to remain a problem in biolinguistics is its integration with the other natural sciences. This paper attempts to examine why such integration is necessary by analyzing the unification problem and, moreover, by providing a framework regarding the language faculty as an entirely biological phenomenon and the importance of embracing biolinguistics as primarily a branch of biology, and ultimately one of natural sciences. |
| Keywords |
| biolinguistics, biology, natural sciences, the unification problem, integration |
| Status: Accepted |