The role of interactional and cognitive mechanisms in the evolution of (proto)language(s)

This paper discusses the role of interactional and cognitive mechanisms in emergence (proto)linguistic structures evolution (proto)language(s). Both social, interactive nature human communication timescale have received increasing attention investigations how structure emerges language. has also led to an focus on involved dialogic co-construction meaning interaction. These include ad hoc constructionalization, alignment, conceptual pacts, reuse modification, local forms entrenchment, routinisation schematisation. Interactional like these do not only play a crucial modern languages. They can help explain first (proto)constructions came into being hominin Frequently re-occuring, temporary, acquired degrees which their subsequent diffusion throughout communities. were then subject processes conventionalisation cumulative cultural evolution. process is hypothesised eventually gradual transition from protolanguage