作为一门新兴的交叉学科，生物语言学希望在生物学视野下进行语言研究，以突显人文性的语言学研究如何从生物学中获得发展动力。本书围绕乔姆斯基提出的“什么组成了语言知识？语言知识是如何习得的？这一知识是如何被使用的？相关的人脑机制是什么？语言知识在种系中是如何进化的？”五个核心部题建构了生物语言学的学科体系；特别关注了特种进化视角下的语言种系发生与发展、个体语言进化层面的北童语言习得机制以及人类语言信息的处理及其认知过程的人脑机制。

as a newly emerging interdisciplinary subject, biolinguistics hopes to conduct linguistic research in the field of biology to highlight how humanistic linguistics has gained momentum in biology. The book is about Chomsky's "what constitutes language knowledge? How is language knowledge acquired? How is this knowledge used? What are the mechanisms involved? How does language knowledge evolve in species? The five core problems have constructed the subject system of biolinguistics. Pay special attention to the special perspective of language evolution, phylogeny and development of individual level of language evolution north of child language acquisition mechanism and human language information processing mechanism of human brain and its cognitive process. < / p >