Foundations of Language: Brain, Meaning, Grammar, Evolution

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FOUNDATIONS OF LANGUAGE Brain,Meaning,Grammar,Evolution Ray Jackendoff ...

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1 The Complexity of Linguistic Structure PART I PSYCHOLOGICAL AND BIOLOGICAL FOUNDATIONS 1.1 A sociological problem 1.2 The str ...

Preface I began my graduate work at MIT in 1965, at a time when generative linguistics was very much the toast of the intellectu ...

AutosegmentalPhonology, Autolexical Syntax, Roleand ReferenceGrammar, ConstructionGrammar, and Optimality Theory. Important piec ...

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First, in the interests of recognizing what a theory of language is responsible for, Chapter 1 is devoted to briefly presenting ...

equally generative. Syntax is thus only one of several parallel sources of grammatical organization. The generative components c ...

goals of generative linguistics, incorporating insofar as possible the insights of several (largely incompatible) approaches, in ...

Acknowledgments The opportunity to write this book arose fro man invitation to spend the acade mic year 1999–2000 at the Wissens ...

Gert Webelhuth, Dan Dennett, Marc Hauser, Tecumseh Fitch, Marcel Kinsbourne, James Pustejovsky, Jong Sup Jun, and my editor, Joh ...

“Fodorian Modularity and Representational Modularity,”in Yosef Grodzinsky, Lewis Shapiro, and David Swinney (eds.),Language and ...