BIOLOGICAL FOUNDATIONS OF LINGUISTIC COMMUNICATION Towards a Biocybernetics of Language -- Editorial page -- Tilte page -- Copyright page -- PREFACE -- Table of contents -- 1. LINGUISTICS AND BIOLOGY -- Part I: LANGUAGE AND BIOLOGICAL STRUCTUFOE -- 2. NEUROBIOLOGY, GRAMMAR AND LEXICON -- 2.1. Two Kinds of Linguistics -- 2.2 Grammar and Neurology -- 2.3. A Methodically Well-founded Ordering Procedure for Linguistic Information -- MODELS -- MODEL GROUPS -- 2.4. Brain Structures -- 2.5. The Correlation between Verb Thesaurus Structure and the Stages of Development of the Central Organ -- 2.6. A Geometro-Dynamical Approach to Explanation -- 2.6.1 Introductory Remarks on a General Theory of Dynamic Systems -- 2.6.2 The Nature of the Cerebral Structure -- 2.6.3 The Nature of the Verb Thesaurus Structure -- 2.6.4 Two Aspects of the Same Matter -- 2.6.5 Language and Brain, an Empirical Hypothesis -- Part II: THE EVOLUTION OF COGNITION AND COMMUNICATION -- 3.DYNAMICS OF ACTION AND PERCEPTION: BLASTEMATICS AND PRORHEMATICS Towards a Procedural Biolinguistics -- 3.1. Language and Linguistics -- 3.2. On the Limits of Linguistics -- 3.3. A Research Programme -- 3.4. Contextual Evolution of Communicative Abilities -- 3.4.1 Evolution -- 3.4.2 (Linguistic) Abilities -- 3.5. The Geometrizer, a Prototypical Example -- 3.6. A Prospect of the Blastematic Enterprise -- 3.7. Geometrizer, Blastematics and Prorhematics -- 3.8. Refining, Extending and Going Beyond the Geometrizer -- 3.8.1 On Refining the Geometrizer -- 3.8.2 On Extending the Geometrizer -- 3.8.3 Going Beyond the Geometrizer -- 3.8.3.1 Structuring Substantial Evolution: A Lexico-Semantic Task -- (i) The Evolution of Organisms and Processes -- (ii) The Structure of the Set of Processes -- 3.8.3.2 Towards a Blastematic Foundation of Linguistic Phenomena -- (i) Introductory Remarks -- (ii) How to Proceed.

(iii) From Grasping to Action and Linguistic Communication -- (iv) Some Further Notes on Grasping -- (v) Grasping and Perception -- 3.9. Approaching Prorhematics -- 3.9.1 Blastematic State Sequences and Blastematic Situation Sequences -- 3.9.2. Stage Analyses of Action, Perception and Linguistic Communication -- a. Some Stages of the Evolution of Action in the Infant -- b. Some Stages Leading to the Linguistic Action of Asking (for Help) -- c. Some Stages Leading to the Free Creation of Wishes -- d. The Development of Reference -- (i) Some Stages of the Development of the Act of Pointing in the Infant -- (ii) Some Stages of the Development of Pointing at Non-Present Objects in the Infant -- e. Some Stages of the Developing Memory -- (i) Three Stage Version: -- (ii) A More Refined Version: Memory of Objects -> Existence of Objects -- f. Development of Learning -- g.Some Stages of Language Development -- (i) Language Copying -- ii) Language Creation -- h. Development of 'Exodus ', Goal Directed Dislocation -- i. Dislocational Adaption: Evolution of 'Liber-imperialsm' -- j. A Possible Evolution of Verbal Interaction -- k. Standard Proceeding of Process and Action Sequences -- 3.9.3. Logical and Bio-Logical Blastematics -- 4. PHILOSOPHICAL AND METHODOLOGICAL ISSUES IN BIOLIN-GUISTICS -- 4.1. Two Philosophical Issues -- 4.1.1 Continuity vs. Discontinuity -- 4.1.2 Body and Mind -- 4.1.2.1. Some Preliminary Clarifications -- 4.1.2.2 Some Puzzles of Body and Mind -- (i) Why do I believe in an s-mind (personal mind)? -- (ii) S-mind is more than . . . -- (iii) Are other s-minds empirically detectable? -- (iv) What does follow from a physical conception of s-mind? -- (v) The causality problem o f physical s-mind. (Causality Contradiction of Body and Soul). -- (vi) Analternativephysical conception of s-minds -- (vii) Blastematics and s-minds.

(viii) The true philosopher's objection -- 4.2. Two Approaches to Knowledge: Philosophy and Wissenschaft -- 4.3. A Prions, Logics and Induction -- 4.3.1 A Prioris -- 4.3.2 Logics -- 4.3.3 Induction -- 4.4. Blastematics and Philosophy, a Summary -- 4.5. The Evolutionary Basis of Blastematics -- 4.5.1 Historical Considerations -- 4.5.2 Substantial Evolution Theory -- 4.5.3 Heuristic Use of the Verb thesaurus and an Argument against Circularity of a Blastematically Based Theory of Evolution -- 4.5.4 Substantial vs. Punctual Evolution Theory -- 4.5.5 Elucidation of the Heuristic Force of the Verbthesaurus Structure -- 4.6. Logic and Induction,Again -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- INDEX OF SUBJECTS.