Dyskusja zagadnień związanych z pojawieniem się pierwszych struktur składniowych w ludzkim protojęzyku

Zbigniew Handzel; Mirosław Gajer

Published: 2017-12-31

No. 13 (2017)

The Way of Emergence of First Syntactic Structures in Human Protolanguage – a Discussion of Selected Issues

Zbigniew Handzel , Mirosław Gajer

Abstract

The question about the origin of human languages is certainly one of most challenging. Most scientists claim that human languages as we know them nowadays must have been preceded by a much simpler intermediate stage of development, which is called protolanguage. Many believe that a hypothetic protolanguage had a form of a simple lexicon without any syntactic structures that would allow its users to combine words in order to formulate some phrases, not to mention whole sentences. A very important question that scientists try to answer is how the first syntactic structures appeared in protolanguage. Some believe that the occurrence of the first syntactic structures in human protolanguage occurred suddenly as a result of a spontaneous mutation that took place in the DNA code of one of our early ancestors. The paper tries to answer the question whether such an explanation can be acknowledged as plausible in the light of biological sciences and probability theory.

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Handzel, Z., & Gajer, M. (2017). The Way of Emergence of First Syntactic Structures in Human Protolanguage – a Discussion of Selected Issues. Journal of Management and Digital Transformation, (13), 81–103. Retrieved from https://journalmdtr.org/index.php/jmdt/article/view/148

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Zbigniew Handzel

Affiliation:

Wyższa Szkoła Ekonomii i Informatyki w Krakowie (WSEI), Poland

Mirosław Gajer

Affiliation:

Akademia Górniczo-Hutnicza im. Stanisława Staszica w Krakowie, Poland

No. 13 (2017)
Published: 2026-09-01

ISSN: 3072-5682

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