Table of Contents

Contents: Preamble – The Dynamics of Language – The Quintessentially Pragmatic Nature of Language – The Emergence of the Language Ability and the Importance of Context – Deictics vs Nouns, Deixis vs Conceptualization – Sub-Segmentals, Co-Segmentals and Segmentals – Iconicity – The Interactive/Interlocutive Nature of Language – Grammaticalization: Emergence of the Verb Category – The Biological Nature of Language – Language as Information Creator – Language, Sex and Gender – Language as Permanent Encounter, Cooperation or Love – Epilogue.

About the Author

Pablo Kirtchuk is Professor of Hebrew at the Académie de Versailles and Lecturer in Neo-Aramaic at the Institut national des langues et civilisations orientales (INALCO) in Paris. He also lectures in Spanish at ISTH University College, Paris, and is a foreign member of the Guarani Language Academy, Paraguay. He holds a PhD from the Sorbonne. He has previously lectured in linguistics at various universities in France, Israel and Argentina.