Pragmatically Intermediate Protolanguage—How and Why

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2026
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Abstract
Abstract Chapter 9 offers preliminary answers to three questions. What are the pre-adaptations needed to make the emergence of a pragmatically intermediate Protolanguage (PIP) possible? How would the non-Gricean capacities that constitute these pre-adaptations conspire to lead to PIP’s emergence? And: Why did PIP emerge? After recalling the main non-Gricean capacities that featured in earlier chapters, the present chapter describes some possible routes from existing forms of non-Gricean psychologically mediated animal communication to PIP. It is argued that the possibility of such routes counts toward the superiority of the intermediate pragmatic conception of Protolanguage pursued in this work over both Gricean pragmatic alternatives and lexical competitors. Also included is a discussion of pointing, which has been assigned a key role in the ontogenetic and phylogenetic emergence of meaningful communication by proponents of Gricean views. Finally, some remarks are made concerning the question of why PIP emerged.
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Authors Dorit Bar‐On
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Journal Oxford University Press eBooks
Year 2026
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10.1093/9780191862564.003.0009
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https://doi.org/10.1093/9780191862564.003.0009
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