Publications Details
Evolutionary explanations of indicatives and imperatives
		Author: Huttegger, Simon M.
	    Journal: Erkenntnis
		Volume: 66
    	    	Year: 2007
    	    	    	Pages: 409—436
    	Abstract: 
	   	   
	   	Recently there has been some interest in studying the explanation of meaning by using signaling games. I shall argue that the meaning of signals in signaling games remains sufficiently unclear to motivate further investigation. In particular, the possibility of distinguishing imperatives and indicatives at a fundamental level will be explored. Thereby I am trying to preserve the generality of the signaling games framework while bringing it closer to human languages. A number of convergence results for the evolutionary dynamics of our models will be proved.

