Biolinguistics: Frontiers and syntheses

This paper contends that the specificity of biolinguistics as a academic (sub) discipline does not rely on the specificity of its subject matter, which it shares with linguistics at large, but on the specificity of the theoretical manipulations that biolinguistics needs to apply to such a matter in order to accommodate it to the concerns that it shares with biology. The paper also defends that in fulfilling this aim bioliguistics is required to direct itself as a branch of learning with a great capacity of interdisciplinary synthesis. The point is illustrated with the particular case of solving the continuity problem.