Origin and evolution of languages : approaches, models, paradigms

 Content: ORIGINS AND EVOLUTION OF LANGUAGES: RETROSPECTIVES AND PERSPECTIVES Serge Cleuziou (CNRS), Jean Paul Demoule (University of Paris 1), Pierre Encreve (EHESS), Bernard Laks (University of Paris 10) --
 Part One : ab originem --
 GENETIC EVOLUTION AND THE EVOLUTION OF LANGUAGES. L.L. Cavalli-Sforza, Genetics Dept. Stanford University --
 LANGUAGES, GENES, AND PREHISTORY, WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO EUROPE. Bernard Comrie, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, and University of California Santa Barbara --
 POOR DESIGN FEATURES IN LANGUAGE AS CLUES TO ITS PREHISTORY. Andrew Carstairs-McCarthy, Linguistics, University of Canterbury, New Zealand. --
 WHAT CAN WE LEARN ABOUT THE EARLIEST HUMAN LANGUAGE BY COMPARING LANGUAGES KNOWN TODAY? Lyle Campbell, Linguistics, University of Canterbury, New Zealand --
 CONCEPTUALIZATION, COMMUNICATION, AND THE ORIGINS OF GRAMMAR. Frederick J. Newmeyer University of Washington --
 THE ORIGIN OF LANGUAGE AS A PRODUCT OF THE EVOLUTION OF MODERN COGNITION Gilles Fauconnier and Mark Turner, University of California San Diego and Case University --
 Part Two : post originem --
 GENETICS AND LANGUAGE: COMPARATISM: FROM GENEALOGY TO GENETICS. Bernard Laks, University of Paris 10 --
 SIMULATING THE EXPANSION OF FARMING AND THE DIFFERENTIATION OF EUROPEAN LANGUAGES. Domenico Parisi, Francesco Antinucci, Francesco Natale, Federico Cecconi, Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies, Italian National Research Council --
 COLIN RENFREW\'S HYPOTHESIS OF THE NEAR-EASTERN ORIGIN OF THE ORIGINAL INDO-EUROPEAN PEOPLE: AN EVALUATION Jean-Paul Demoule, University of Paris 1 --
 NEW PERSPECTIVES ON THE ORIGIN OF LANGUAGES Merrit Ruhlen Stanford University --
 LINGUISTIC HISTORY AND COMPUTATIONAL CLADISTICS Don Ringe and Tandy Warnow, University of Pennsylvania and University of Texas --
 WHAT DO CREOLES AND PIDGINS TELL US ABOUT THE EVOLUTION OF LANGUAGE? Salikoko S. Mufwene University of Chicago --
 DOES HISTORY BEGIN BEFORE SUMER? Serge Cleuziou University Paris 1.