Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
section 1. Evolutionary precursors -- section 2. The basic human ability -- section 3. Specifiying some necessary requisites of language -- section 4. The origin of prediction and syntax -- section 5. Pregrammatical, theme-rheme syntax : revisiting Frege and Vygotsky -- section 6. From original to present-day prediction : links and grammatical syntax -- section 7. Syntax beyond predication.
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