标题：Jean-Louis Dessalles, Către originile limbajului. O istorie naturală a vorbirii. Traducere de Alexandru Gafton.Prefață de Alexandru Gafton și Ioan Milică,Editura Universității „Alexandru Ioan Cuza”,Iași,2017,589 p.
摘要：Nowadays, it would be difficult to name an academic discipline which, striving to clarify one fact or another about the ontology of the living, would not demand to have a word about the origin and evolution of language, from biology to philosophy, from computer sciences to archaeology. Even sciences and domains whose intellectual products don’t refer to human communication at all are in the position to offer pieces of knowledge that help in the quest for the truth desired by the evolutionary linguistics— linguistics that, until not long ago, used to rely exclusively, and therefore limitingly, on the data obtained by historical linguistics, construction grammar, cognitive semantics, psycholinguistics, and the like. It’s not as if the above-mentioned fields and sciences have recently opened to what seems to be the ultimate mystery of the human species; on the contrary, the linguistics itself has quite recently embraced the idea that some keys to decipher it might be deduced or perfectioned by analysing the evidence given by evolutionary biology, and by taking into account ideas about an increased brain capacity, about the evolution of cognitive and perceptual abilities, about an increased social and ecological complexity, etc.; and not necessary, and not only at Homo sapiens.
