Pragmatically Intermediate Protolanguage

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2026
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Abstract
Abstract Chapter 8 turns to the construction of a pragmatically intermediate protolanguage (PIP). Of particular concern are the questions: What would PIP have looked like in broad outlines? What would have rendered it intermediate, and what would make it recognizably pragmatic? Building on the discussion in earlier chapters, Chapter 8 begins with a tentative characterization of PIP, describing various elements of PIP and their pragmatically intermediate, psychologically mediated use by PIP communicators. The chapter then provides an account of the steps that could have made it possible for PIP thus characterized to emerge from the sort of intentional communication present among existing animals, for which there is some empirical evidence (as illustrated in Chapter 7). Along the way, a novel notion of pragmatic combinatoriality is introduced and contrasted with the notion of semantic combinatoriality that features in competing lexical conceptions of Protolanguage.
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Authors Dorit Bar‐On
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Journal Oxford University Press eBooks
Year 2026
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10.1093/9780191862564.003.0008
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https://doi.org/10.1093/9780191862564.003.0008
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