If language and the brain are co-evolved and language as a
latecomer can avail itself of pre-existing means to solve its own
problems, then it should be possible to describe it in terms of
processing strategies and constraints arising from brain systems.
This is precisely what this study attempts to do with respect to
the emergence of three types of higher-level meanings; direct
speech acts, built-in conditions for their success and
non-defective performance and constraints on sequencing of an
argumentational kind. In so doing there are three main issues it
needs to address. What types of problem arise at the text level
that could have led to the emergence in question? Is there a clear
parallel between these problems and those faced by brain systems?
What solutions have been evolved to cater for the latter, which
could have been co-opted by language? Finally there is the question
of the extent to which such an account is compatible with a global
theory of brain function such as Edelman's Theory of Neuronal Group
Selection.
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