Becoming human [electronic resource] : from pointing gestures to syntax / Teresa Bejarano.

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.