Abstract
This paper discusses evolutionary and neurobiological approaches to linguistic research. The role and significance of the co-evolution processes of language and the brain are highlighted. Thus language is regarded as a product of natural selection, shaped by the brain (but the influence is mutual). The author also indicates a possibility of applying the extended phenotype concept to the study of language. That original idea implies the perception of language as a neuromimesis-based phenotypic expression of the biological and cultural replicators outside the organism’s body.References
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