Los limites de la selecion natural y el evominimalismo. Antecedentes, actualidad y perspectivas del pensamiento chomskyano sobre los origenes...

Translated title: The limits of natural selection and Evo-Minimalism. Antecedents, State of the Art and Prospects of Chomsky's ideas on the evolutionary origins of languages.
Verba (v.35)
by Lorenzo, Guillermo

Abstracts

This paper argues, against the claims of several people, that understanding the evolutionary origins of language has always been within the chomskyan linguistic agenda. The paper explains Chomsky's traditional rejection of the Darwinian recipe of evolution by means of natural selection as an appropriate mechanism for the case of language & explores the possibilities of the Minimalism Program as an alternative framework in order to solve the question.

This one is from the "On the wrong path" dept. This short abstract masks a GIGANTIC argument that is brewing in some circles. The abstract translation is a little misleading (as is my total lack of spanish fluency) but I think the argument here is that Chomsky has broken evidence of how Darwinian Evolution does not explain the emergence of Language.

I would probably agree that traditional Darwinian Evolution does not, alone, explain the emergence of Language. But I am more than a little dubious that the Minimalist Program is on the right path toward an explanation of the appropriate mechanism.

I'm always happy to see articles of this nature, even if they are written in languages I can't understand well enough to read them in. What makes this article crazy isn't that I disagree with one of its premises, but that it's just so unlike the kind of argumentative articles you typically see in Linguistics journals (but in a good way).