Grammar in Mind and Brain: Explorations in Cognitive Syntax

✍ Scribed by Paul D. Deane

• Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
• Year: 1993
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 368
• Series: Cognitive Linguistics Research [CLR]; 2
• Edition: Reprint 2011
• Category: Library

✦ Table of Contents

1. Island constraints as evidence for a cognitive theory of grammar
   1.1. The fundamental issues
   1.2. Syntactic autonomy: empirical issues
   1.3. Alternatives to autonomy: functional and cognitive accounts
   1.4. Attention and extraction
   1.5. An alternative to strict modularity
2. An integrated cognitive theory
   2.1. Cognitive architecture
   2.2. Knowledge representation
   2.3. Storage and retrieval from declarative memory
   2.4. Productions, relevance, and the matching process
   2.5. Categorization and polysemy: a case study
3. The Spatialization of Form Hypothesis
   3.1. The cognitive grounding of syntactic knowledge
   3.2. Grammatical projections of the link schema
   3.3. Linkage, immediate constituency, and grammatical relations
   3.4. Hierarchical structure
   3.5. Constituency and accessibility: the concepts of c-command and government
4. Applications of the theory to English syntax
   4.1. Declarative memory for syntax
   4.2. Interactions among schemata
   4.3. The syntactic function of productions
   4.4. More prototype effects: ‘believe’- and ‘want’-class verbs
5. Attention and grammar
   5.1. Topic and focus potential
   5.2. Entrenchment hierarchies
   5.3. The Silverstein Hierarchy as an entrenchment hierarchy
   5.4. Further evidence: viewpoint and reflexivization
   5.5. Further evidence: ease of acquisition
   5.6. Further evidence: directionality of metaphoric transfer
   5.7. Other entrenchment hierarchies
   5.8. Island constraints again
6. Neurological implications of the theory
   6.1. Background
   6.2. Neurological implications: the Parietal Hypothesis
   6.3. Aphasia and the Parietal Hypothesis
   6.4. Further implications
   Notes
   Bibliography
   Index