glossogenetic

Adjective

glossogenetic (not comparable)

1. Of or pertaining to the emergence of linguistic forms over time.
   • In other words, the Subjacency Condition may be an innate 'fossil' of a glossogenetic adaptation to avoid long-distance dependencies.1998, Simon Kirby, “Fitness and the selective adaptation of language”, in Approaches to the Evolution of Language: Social and Cognitive Bases, →ISBN, page 380
   • Kirby explicitly sought to simulate language emergence in the absence of selection pressure to explore the power of glossogenetic adaptation alone.2002, Bradley Tonkes, Janet Wiles, “Methodological Issues in Simulating the Emergence of Language,”, in The Transition to Language, Alison Wray, →ISBN, page 241