Rich Languages From Poor Inputs
Title | Rich Languages From Poor Inputs PDF eBook |
Author | Massimo Piattelli-Palmarini |
Publisher | Oxford University Press, USA |
Pages | 328 |
Release | 2013 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 0199590338 |
This book addresses one of the most famous and controversial arguments in the study of language and mind, the Poverty of the Stimulus. Internationally recognised scholars consider afresh the issues surrounding this argument and discuss its relation to the process of language acquisition.
Rich Languages from Poor Inputs
Title | Rich Languages from Poor Inputs PDF eBook |
Author | Massimo Piattelli-Palmarini |
Publisher | Oxford University Press, USA |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2015-04-30 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 9780198736714 |
This text addresses one of the most famous and controversial arguments in the study of language and mind, the Poverty of the Stimulus. Internationally recognised scholars consider afresh the issues surrounding this argument and discuss its relation to the process of language acquisition.
Advances in Biolinguistics
Title | Advances in Biolinguistics PDF eBook |
Author | Koji Fujita |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 286 |
Release | 2016-02-12 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 131748620X |
Biolinguistics is a highly interdisciplinary field that seeks the rapprochement between linguistics and biology. Linking theoretical linguistics, theoretical biology, genetics, neuroscience and cognitive psychology, this book offers a collection of chapters situating the enterprise conceptually, highlighting both the promises and challenges of the field, and chapters focusing on the challenges and prospects of taking interdisciplinarity seriously. It provides concrete illustrations of some of the cutting-edge research in biolinguistics and piques the interest of undergraduate students looking for a field to major in and inspires graduate students on possible research directions. It is also meant to show to specialists in adjacent fields how a particular strand of theoretical linguistics relates to their concerns, and in so doing, the book intends to foster collaboration across disciplines.
Symmetrizing Syntax
Title | Symmetrizing Syntax PDF eBook |
Author | Hiroki Narita |
Publisher | Taylor & Francis |
Pages | 345 |
Release | 2021-11-29 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 1317371569 |
Symmetrizing Syntax seeks to establish a minimal and natural characterization of the structure of human language (syntax), simplifying many facets of it that have been redundantly or asymmetrically formulated. Virtually all past theories of natural language syntax, from the traditional X-bar theory to the contemporary system of Merge and labeling, stipulate that every phrase structure is "asymmetrically" organized, so that one of its elements is always marked as primary/dominant over the others, or each and every phrase is labeled by a designated lexical element. The two authors call this traditional stipulation into question and hypothesize, instead, that linguistic derivations are essentially driven by the need to reduce asymmetry and generate symmetric structures. Various linguistic notions such as Merge, cyclic derivation by phase, feature-checking, morphological agreement, labeling, movement, and criterial freezing, as well as parametric differences among languages like English and Japanese, and so on, are all shown to follow from a particular notion of structural symmetry. These results constitute novel support for the contemporary thesis that human language is essentially an instance of a physical/biological object, and its design is governed by the laws of nature, at the core of which lies the fundamental principle of symmetry. Providing insights into new technical concepts in syntax, the volume is written for academics in linguistics but will also be accessible to linguistics students seeking an introduction to syntax.
Aspects of Slavic Linguistics
Title | Aspects of Slavic Linguistics PDF eBook |
Author | Olav Mueller-Reichau |
Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Pages | 394 |
Release | 2017-10-10 |
Genre | Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | 3110517876 |
The present volume offers a selection of papers on current issues in Slavic languages. It takes stock of the past 20 years of linguistic research at the Department of Slavic Studies at Leipzig University. Within these two decades, the scientific writing, teaching, and organization done in this Department strengthened the mode of research in formal description of Slavic languages, formed another center for this kind of linguistic research in the world, and brought about a remarkable amount of scientific output. The authors of this volume are former or present members of the Department of Slavic studies or academic friends. Based on the data from East, West, and South Slavic languages, the papers tackle issues of all grammatical subdisciplines in current models of description, compare parts of the grammars of Slavic languages, explain categories and phrases in Slavic languages that do not exist in present-day Indogermanic languages of Western Europe, and propose ways how to update the standard of lexicography in still less described Slavic languages. A study of language competence is dedicated to the actual requests on heritage speakers and shows how their abilities can be evaluated.
The Oxford Handbook of Universal Grammar
Title | The Oxford Handbook of Universal Grammar PDF eBook |
Author | Ian Roberts |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 673 |
Release | 2017-01-12 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 0191643688 |
This handbook provides a critical guide to the most central proposition in modern linguistics: the notion, generally known as Universal Grammar, that a universal set of structural principles underlies the grammatical diversity of the world's languages. Part I considers the implications of Universal Grammar for philosophy of mind and philosophy of language, and examines the history of the theory. Part II focuses on linguistic theory, looking at topics such as explanatory adequacy and how phonology and semantics fit into Universal Grammar. Parts III and IV look respectively at the insights derived from UG-inspired research on language acquisition, and at comparative syntax and language typology, while part V considers the evidence for Universal Grammar in phenomena such as creoles, language pathology, and sign language. The book will be a vital reference for linguists, philosophers, and cognitive scientists.
Life and Language Beyond Earth
Title | Life and Language Beyond Earth PDF eBook |
Author | Raymond Hickey |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 697 |
Release | 2023-08-31 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 100922641X |
Could we communicate with lifeforms on exoplanets? This thought-provoking book explores the likelihood of life and language beyond Earth.