Atalarımızın sözcükleri birleştirmesine neden olan şey ne idi?

Bu makale dilbilgisi ontojenezine evrimsel bir yaklaşım getirmekte ve soyoluşta cinsel davranışlar ile zihinsel dilsel mekanizmalar arasında bir ilişki kurmaktadır. Çalışmada, ilk olarak, dil evrimi ve adaptasyonların doğası ile ilgili evrimsel görüşlerin bir özeti sunuldmuş ve ardından bunlar cinsel seçilim açısından bütüncül bir şekilde tartışılmıştır. Daha sonra, dilbilgisinin ontojenezinde eski çağlardan beri bulunduğu düşünülen atasal dilsel özellikleri açıklamak için üretken, hiyerarşik, cinsiyetli, birleşimli ve yinelemeli yapılar tartışılmıştır. Son olarak, filojenezde hangi zihinsel mekanizmaların tekrarlandığını belirlemek için üretkenlik, sembolizm, hiyerarşi, cinsiyet, birleşim ve yineleme gibi dilbilgisel özellikler ontojenezde ve filojenezde diğer üreyici, hiyerarşik, cinsel, birleşimli ve yinelemeli deneyimlerle ilişkilendirilmiştir. Sonuç olarak, insanın zihinsel ve dilsel evrimindeki çeşitli gelişmelerin kaynağı olan sembolik düşünce dilbilgisel ontojenezde yüz yüze cinsel deneyimle elde edilen cinsel hazzın bir yan etkisi olarak değerlendirilmiştir. Başka bir deyişle, yüz yüze çiftleşme sembolik düşüncenin ve dilin öncülü olarak gösterilmiştir. Buradan yola çıkarak dilbilgisi yapıları ontojenezindeki üretkenlik, sembolizm, hiyerarşi, cinsiyet, birleşim ve yinelemenin filojenezde dilbilgisinin çiftleşme kalıplarının, özellikle de yüz yüze çiftleşme deneyiminin, daha önceki evrimsel aşamalarına gerileme olduğu sonucuna varılmıştır.

What made our ancestors put the words together?

This article introduces an evolutionary approach to the ontogeny of grammar and establishes a relation between sexual behaviors and mental linguistic mechanisms in phylogeny. Initially, it presents a summary of evolutionary ideas relating to language evolution and the nature of adaptations, and holistically discuss them in terms of sexual selection. Next, generative, hierarchical, gendered, combinatorial and recursive operations are illustrated, explained and discussed in order to unroll the ancestral linguistic characters in the ontogeny of grammar. Finally, the linguistic characters such as generation, symbolism, hierarchy, gender, merge and recursivity in the ontogeny are correlated with other reproductive, symbolic, sexual, combinatorial, hierarchical, iterative, repetitive, recursive experiences in ontogeny and phylogeny in order to identify what mental mechanisms in the phylogeny are recapitulated. The conclusion is that symbolic thought as the origin of several developments in human mental evolution as well as merge and recursivity characters of grammar in ontogeny is the side-effect of sexual pleasure from ventro-ventral sexual experience. In other words, ventro-ventral sex is introduced as the antecedent of symbolic thought and protolanguage. This grounding led to the postulation that generation, symbolism, hierarchy, gender, merge and recursivity in the ontogeny of grammar are regressions to earlier evolutionary stages of copulatory, particularly ventro-ventral, patterns in the phylogeny.

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protogrammar, ventro-ventral sex, merge, recursion, evolution symbolic thought,

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