Editing Generative grammar (section)

=== Biolinguistics ===

Recent work in generative-inspired [[biolinguistics]] has proposed that universal grammar consists solely of syntactic [[recursion]], and that it arose recently in humans as the result of a random genetic mutation.<ref name="Berwick&Chomsky_2015">{{cite book |last1=Berwick |first1=Robert |last2=Chomsky |first2=Noam |author-link2=Noam Chomsky |title=Why Only Us: Language and Evolution |publisher=MIT Press |date=2015 |isbn=978-0262034241}}</ref> Generative-inspired biolinguistics has not uncovered any particular genes responsible for language. While some prospects were raised at the discovery of the ''[[FOXP2]]'' [[gene]],<ref name="Scharff 2005">{{cite journal |vauthors=Scharff C, Haesler S|title=An evolutionary perspective on FoxP2: strictly for the birds? |journal=Curr. Opin. Neurobiol. |volume=15 |issue=6 |pages=694–703 |date=December 2005 |pmid=16266802 |doi=10.1016/j.conb.2005.10.004 |s2cid=11350165 }}</ref><ref name="Scharff 2011">{{cite journal |vauthors=Scharff C, Petri J|title=Evo-devo, deep homology and FoxP2: implications for the evolution of speech and language |journal=Philos. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. B Biol. Sci. |volume=366 |issue=1574 |pages=2124–40 |date=July 2011 |pmid=21690130 |pmc=3130369 |doi=10.1098/rstb.2011.0001 }}</ref> there is not enough support for the idea that it is 'the grammar gene' or that it had much to do with the relatively recent emergence of syntactical speech.<ref name="Diller 2009">{{cite book | last1 = Diller | first1 = Karl C. |last2 = Cann | first2 =Rebecca L. |title = Evidence Against a Genetic-Based Revolution in Language 50,000 Years Ago |editor=Rudolf Botha |editor2=Chris Knight|series = Oxford Series in the Evolution of Language |year = 2009 |publisher = Oxford University Press |location=Oxford|isbn = 978-0-19-954586-5|pages=135–149}}</ref>