The biolinguistic enterprise new perspectives on the evolution and nature of the human language faculty Edited by Anna MAria di Sciullo and Cedric Boeckx

1. Introduction: Contours of the Biolinguistic Research Agenda / Anna Maria Di Sciullo and Cedric Boeckx. -- Part one: Evolution. -- 2. The Biolinguistic Program: The Current State of its Evolution / Robert Berwick and Noam Chomsky. -- 3. Some Reflections on Darwin’s Problem in the Context of Cartesian Biolinguistics / Cedric Boeckx. -- 4. Syntax Facit Saltum Redux: Biolinguistics and the Leap to Syntax / Robert Berwick. -- 5. A geneticist’s Dream, a Linguist’s Nightmare: The Case of FOXP2 / Massimo Piattelli-Palmarini and Juan Uriagareka. -- 6. Biolinguistic Investigations: Genetics and Dynamics / Lyle Jenkins
7. "Deep Homology" in the biology and evolution of language / Tecumseh Fitch. -- Part two: Variation. -- 8. The Three Factors in Evolution and Variation / Lyle Jenkins. -- 9. Three Factors in Language Variation / Charles Yang. -- 10. Approaching Parameters from Below / Cedric Boeckx. -- 11. (Bio)linguistic Diversity / Rita Manzini and Leonardo Savoia. -- 12. The Biolinguistic Program and Historical Reconstruction / Giuseppe Longobardi and Cristina Guardiano. -- 13. A Biolinguistic Approach to Variation / Anna Maria Di Sciullo. -- Part three: computation. -- 14. Antisymmetry and the Lexicon / Richard Kayne. -- 15. What Kind of Computing Device is the Human Language Faculty? / Howard Lasnik. -- 16. Clauses, Propositions and Phases / Richard Larson. -- 17. Reflections on the Optimal Solution: On the Syntactic Representation of Indexicality / Alessandra Giorgi. -- 18. Emergence of a Systemic Semantics Through Minimal and Underspecified Codes / Wolfram Hinzen. -- 19. Bridging the Gap Between Brain and Syntax. A Case for a Role of the Phonological Loop / Carlo Cecchetto & Costanza Papagno. -- 20. All you Need is Merge: Biology, Computation, and Language from the Bottom-up / Robert Berwick.

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