Foundations of Language: Brain, Meaning, Grammar, Evolution

“subtask”of asking whattypeof battery thecustomer wants. Before thecustomer can answer,though, thesalesperson realizes thereis a ...

Thefirst questionwe might ask is: What sort of cognitivestructure does this narrativebuild, such that the meaning of each senten ...

Chapter 13 Concluding Remarks The promise of generative grammar in the 1960s was that it would give us insight into the nature o ...

particular so as to solve the Proble mof 2 ( multiple instances in working me mory of a single long-ter m memory type)? How doe ...

notations within linguistic theory don't allow us to extract just the non-redundant parts of idioms and irregular morphology as ...

concentrated more on interface components than generative components here, it is because in my opinion they have not previously ...

Another aspect of the theory that comes out quite unfamiliar is the theory of learnability. Here I must be still more speculativ ...

conceivedof as theoutput of syntacticderivation, which has the feelof a relatively late innovation.It is of course hard to bring ...

is in the character of interfaces everywhere in the f-mind to be“dirty”; there is no reason to expect more here. A theoryofmeani ...

has. And, as we have seen, it is a fascinating enterprise to choreograph the balance between pure syntax and its interfaces with ...

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