title: Biolinguistics: forays into human cognitive biology.
abstract: The present article surveys the field of biolinguistics. It revisits the roots of the field's core research agenda, then turns to the various factors that led to its recent re-emergence, and finally offers suggestions for future inquiry. The essay also serves to highlight certain conceptual issues that should be addressed if the field is to bear its interdisciplinary fruits.
authors.affiliation: ICREA (Catalan Institute for Advanced Studies), University of Barcelona, Department of General Linguistics, Gran via de les Cortes Catalanes 585, 08007 Barcelona, Spain, cedric.boeckx@ub.edu.
authors.forename: Cedric
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Boeckx
mesh_terms: D005075:Biological Evolution; D006801:Humans; D008037:Linguistics; D009488:Neurosciences