GRAMBY

The Grammar of the Body: Revealing the Foundations of Compositionality in Human Language

Coordinatore	UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA    more Spiacenti, non ci sono informazioni su questo coordinatore. Contattare Fabio per maggiori infomrazioni, grazie.
Nazionalità Coordinatore	Israel [IL]
Totale costo	2˙448˙318 €
EC contributo	2˙448˙318 €
Programma	FP7-IDEAS-ERC Specific programme: "Ideas" implementing the Seventh Framework Programme of the European Community for research, technological development and demonstration activities (2007 to 2013)
Code Call	ERC-2013-ADG
Funding Scheme	ERC-AG
Anno di inizio	2014
Periodo (anno-mese-giorno)	2014-07-01   -   2019-06-30

 Partecipanti

#	participant	country	role	EC contrib. [€]
1	FREIE UNIVERSITAET BERLIN  Organization address address: Kaiserswertherstrasse 16-18 city: BERLIN postcode: 14195 contact info Titolo: Mrs. Nome: Melanie Cognome: Wruck Email: send email Telefono: +49 30 838 50538	DE (BERLIN)	beneficiary	327˙894.00
2	UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA  Organization address address: "Mount Carmel, Abba Khoushi Blvd." city: HAIFA postcode: 31905 contact info Titolo: Mrs. Nome: Tsvia Cognome: Beker Email: send email Telefono: +972 4 8288485	IL (HAIFA)	hostInstitution	2˙120˙424.50
3	UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA  Organization address address: "Mount Carmel, Abba Khoushi Blvd." city: HAIFA postcode: 31905 contact info Titolo: Prof. Nome: Wendy Cognome: Sandler Email: send email Telefono: +972 4 8249335 Fax: +972 4 8249958	IL (HAIFA)	hostInstitution	2˙120˙424.50

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 Obiettivo del progetto (Objective)

'The pioneering framework I propose for the analysis of the foundations of human language – the Grammar of the Body – is inspired by sign language. My main aim is to create a body-based model of linguistic compositionality and to provide clues of its evolutionary origins. Instead of analysing sign language (and language generally) from the perspective of mental categories, the radical approach I introduce here analyses language from the outside in, from the physical articulators of the face, hands, and body in sign language, to the grammatical structures they manifest. This new approach capitalizes on the discovery that gestures of each articulator make a meaningful contribution to the whole corporeal display, and yield a hierarchy from small to large in both body and grammar domains: hands/words > head and face/phrasal intonation > torso/discourse perspective. I hypothesize that the corporeal base of compositionality has deeper evolutionary roots in the emotional face and body displays of humans and our closest living relatives, chimpanzees. The multi-disciplinary methodology I adopt will incorporate linguistic analysis of established and newly emerging sign languages with artistic manipulation of language form, and allow us to trace the origins of the system in emotional displays of both humans and apes. My central goal – determining the basis and structure of compositionality in human language – and the unconventional methodological approaches it exploits combine to make this an extremely ambitious proposal with potentially wide-reaching ramifications in the humanities and social sciences.'