Already hailed as a masterpiece, Foundations of Language offers a brilliant overhaul of the last thirty-five years of research in generative linguistics and related fields. "Few books really deserve the clich? 'this should be read by every researcher in the field,'" writes Steven Pinker, author of T
Foundations of language: brain, meaning, grammar, evolution
β Scribed by Jackendoff, Ray
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Year
- 2002
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 498
- Category
- Library
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β¦ Table of Contents
Content: PART I: PSYCHOLOGICAL AND BIOLOGICAL FOUNDATIONS
1. The Complexity of Linguistic Structure
2. Language as a Mental Phenomenon
3. Combinatoriality
4. Universal Grammar
PART II: ARCHITECTURAL FOUNDATIONS
5. The Parallel Architecture
6. Lexical Storage Versus Online Construction
7. Implications for Processing
8. An Evolutionary Perspective on the Architecture
PART III: SEMANTIC AND CONCEPTUAL FOUNDATIONS
9. Semantics as a Mentalistic Enterprise
10. Reference and Truth
11. Lexical Semantics
12. Phrasal Semantics
Concluding Remarks
β¦ Subjects
Grammar, Comparative and general.;Biolinguistics.;Semantics.;Generative grammar.
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