Language Evolution and the Interactional Instinct

One of the biggest issues that has plagued linguists for years is, why are humans the only species to have developed language? This short eBook takes a look at the work of Noam Chomsky, Steven Pinker, Derek Bickerton and Terrence Deacon, and proposes that the answer lies in a new theory called The Interactional Instinct. Proposed by John Schumann, this theory states that interaction with others, and not an innate Universal Grammar, is responsible for the rapid development of language. Using...