Looking Ahead

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2026
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Abstract
Abstract This final chapter provides a look ahead to what lies beyond the pragmatically intermediate Protolanguage (PIP) characterized in earlier chapters, as well as to some of the work that remains for those aiming to explain the evolution of language. To do so, it offers some reflections on the resources available for a defender of a PIP to address the second hard problem of language evolution: “How could human language have emerged from a protolinguistic system communication?” The chapter first highlights some of the advances that needed to take place after PIP and indicates some relevant PIP-related resources. It then shows that there are significant continuities between linguistic and non-linguistic expressivity that bear on the emergence of human linguistic communication from Protolanguage. By way of providing indirect support for this work’s conception of Protolanguage, it is argued that present-day human languages include elements whose use—much like the use of the elements of PIP’s repertoire—is pragmatically intermediate. These can be regarded as present-day pragmatic fossils of PIP.
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Authors Dorit Bar‐On
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Journal Oxford University Press eBooks
Year 2026
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10.1093/9780191862564.003.0010
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https://doi.org/10.1093/9780191862564.003.0010
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