Ballmer Thomas T. Biological Foundations of Linguistic Communication: Towards a Biocybernetics of Language

John Benjamins Publishing Company, 1982. — 171 р. — Series: Pragmatics & Beyond (Book 7)This is the second of two volumes – the first volume being Waltraud Brennenstuhl’s Control and Ability (P&B III:4) – treating biocybernetical questions of language. This book starts out from an investigation of the (neuro-)biological relevancy of natural language from the point of view of grammar and the lexicon. Furthermore, the basic mechanisms of the self-organization of organisms in their environments are discussed, in so far as they lead to linguistic control and abilities.ISBN10: 9027225206
ISBN13: 978-9027225207