In the Beginning Was the Verb. The Enigma of the Emergence and Evolution of Language and the Big Bang Epistemological Paradigm

Abstract

The enigma of the Emergence of Natural Languages, coupled or not with the closely related problem of their Evolution, is perceived today as one of the most important scientific problems. All living beings are known to somehow communicate with their fellow creatures. It means that the language has been evolving over a very long stretch of time and, before becoming the language we learn, use, and enhance today, it has passed through a number of stages, or plateaux of relative stability, with each particular radical transition driven by proper to it forces and guided by proper to it laws. The purpose of the present study, concerned with the emergence and, in a lesser degree, the evolution of modern languages of the Afro-Asiatic and Indo-European language extraction, is to outline such a solution to our problem which is epistemologically consonant with the Big Bang solution of the problem of the Emergence of the Universe. The radical novelty of the introduced here and adapted to our purposes Big Bang epistemological paradigm will be an appropriate, even if probably shocking response to our equally shocking discovery in the oldest among well preserved linguistic fossils of perfect mathematical structures outdoing the best artifactual Assemblers.