The origin of language

"The Origin of Language remains as completely original and unprecedented (and intellectually demanding and satisfying) today as when it was originally published, so much so as to constitute a kind of intellectual scandal"--;The linguistic dialectic -- A Derridean parenthesis -- Formal and institutional representation -- The ostensive -- Linguistics of the ostensive -- The imperative I -- The imperative I -- Elementary forms and grammatical structures -- The fundamental asymmetry of the speech situation -- Imperative dialogue -- Dialectic of the imperative (II) -- Negation as predication: the origin of the declarative -- The declarative I -- The esthetics of linguistic forms.