Advances in Biolinguistics - The Human Language Faculty and Its Biological Basis
1 Introduction Generative grammar, currently known as biolinguistics, and henceforth referred to as biolinguistics, emerged as t ...
philosophy, especially those concerned with the modern period, to emphasize precisely this relevance. Thus it is now a commonpla ...
first established.” Although “the precise period in question varies from historian to historian,” as Henry (2008:1) notes, it is ...
analysis reveals how things must be; if the calculations work, it must be because the proposed theory is true, or very nearly so ...
have been expressed by various philosophers, some explaining it by attrac- tion to the center, others to repulsion between the v ...
of the scientifi c revolution required a resolution of the tension between the two dominant trends.” It is interesting to note t ...
century to that plane of achievement which has led historians to speak of a scientifi c revolution. And modern science continues ...
accumulation of data.” The other is structural linguistics, “which has domi- nated research for the past century, at least until ...
very outset Chomsky adopts a realist interpretation of grammar.” So, it is obvi- ous that in the cognitive revolution of the 195 ...
As Chomsky suggests, if mathematics does not play a genuine role in biolinguis- tics, as it does in physics, in what sense does ...
As Chomsky (2007: 6) clearly states, the formal nature of t he model of grammar remains the same in the Minimalist Program. (Her ...
biological study of behaviour”. By this I mean that the science is charac- terised by an observable phenomenon (behaviour, or mo ...
Thus, it is Tinbergen’s insight to include the questions of survival value, evo- lution, and ontogeny, which all pertain directl ...
properties, we face a rather typical problem of natural science, namely, the problem of appropriate idealization and abstraction ...
Revolution of the seventeenth century: the Platonic-Pythagorean tradition and the mechanical philosophy. These two themes corres ...
Boeckx, Cedric. 2010. Language in cognition: Uncovering mental structur es and the rules behind them. West Sussex, UK: Wiley-Bla ...
Glennan, Stuart. 2009. Mechanisms. In the Oxford Handbook of Causation, ed. Helen BeeBee, Chirstopher Hichcoch, and Peter Menzie ...
Part IV Evolutionary considerations ...
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1 Introduction This short chapter develops a hypothesis that claims that the human language faculty (Merge/UG) as a genetic endo ...
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