Contents: Genetic code - Linguistic code - Origin of language - Embodiment - Generative grammar - Cognitive semiotics - Genome duplication - Phrase structure - Text structure - Universals of language - Language evolution.
The Author: Ángel López-García is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Valencia (Spain), and he has been a visiting Professor at the universities of Virginia, Mainz, Minnesota, Tucumán and Aarhus. He helped to develop the Liminar Grammar model of Cognitive Linguistics as soon as 1980, and elaborated a series of applications to natural languages. He is the author of two dozens of books and some two hundred papers on Linguistics, Semiotics, and Communication. He received the Prix Honoré Chavée de l'Académie Française.