Foundations of Language: Brain, Meaning, Grammar, Evolution

(Jackendoff 1996a) is tothinkthatnotallsyntacticconfigurationsare inherentlymeaningful—thattherelationbetween form and meaning i ...

Having admitted phrasal structures as possible constituents of lexical items, we also open up the possibility of formulating int ...

(33b, c) are not synonymous; (33a) seems neutral between them (Talmy 1978; Gleitman et al. 1996). The difference in (33b, c)conc ...

6.8 The status of inheritance hierarchies We are now in a position to return to two questions concerning idioms: How does the gr ...

How does the lexicon capture this redundancy, this“borrowing”? One approach, which might be associated with Chomsky's viewofthel ...

The inheritance properties oftake to taskandwentcan be set up in this format too: Hence, as many have noted (e.g. Lakoff 1987; P ...

inheritance hierarchies in the brain, only inheritance. My sense is that inheritance is not very well understood formally yet, p ...

general categorization. I takesuchpotentialunificationtobea reason foroptimism, as itdraws a principled connection between two p ...

Another apparently recent class involvingthe particleoutis totally productive. For example, if I have been knitting or programmi ...

contrast, when a pattern with a variable develops, the relation among the stored items“goes productive”: the pattern can partici ...

regular rule suddenly“popping into place,”more careful micro-observation often shows a gradual emergence of constructions, appea ...

conclude that the varietyof grammars in human languages cannot possibly be regimented by afinite parameterization. Culicover goe ...

without entirely determining it. We can think of the grammatical fragments in UG as“attractors”(in the dynamic systems sense) th ...

phrase structure, but it is violable. For instance, English gerundive noun phrases such asJohn's walking the dog last night (as ...

competence, so be it. For my own taste, such interaction between the two theories is the proper way for linguistic research to p ...

discussed in Chapter 12) raise similar problems of constituent incompatibility on the syntax–semantics side too.) Again, the dif ...

CHAPTER 7 Implications for Processing Chapter 2 touched on the potential connection and interpenetration between theories of com ...

Of course we were all taught as graduate students that syntactic derivations don't model the course of processing. Speakers don' ...

want to go beyond this to ask: do the principles of the competence theory bear any resemblance to the principles that thelanguag ...

Fig. 7.2 The parallel grammar implemented as a processing architecture acoustical information—a frequency analysis of a continuo ...