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The Biolinguistic Enterprise
Author | : Anna Maria Di Sciullo,Cedric Boeckx |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 576 |
Release | : 2011-03-17 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9780199553273 |
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This book, by leading scholars, represents some of the main work in progress in biolinguistics. It offers fresh perspectives on language evolution and variation, new developments in theoretical linguistics, and insights on the relations between variation in language and variation in biology. The authors address the Darwinian questions on the origin and evolution of language from a minimalist perspective, and provide elegant solutions to the evolutionary gap between human language and communication in all other organisms. They consider language variation in the context of current biological approaches to species diversity - the 'evo-devo revolution' - which bring to light deep homologies between organisms. In dispensing with the classical notion of syntactic parameters, the authors argue that language variation, like biodiversity, is the result of experience and thus not a part of the language faculty in the narrow sense. They also examine the nature of this core language faculty, the primary categories with which it is concerned, the operations it performs, the syntactic constraints it poses on semantic interpretation and the role of phases in bridging the gap between brain and syntax. Written in language accessible to a wide audience, The Biolinguistic Enterprise will appeal to scholars and students of linguistics, cognitive science, biology, and natural language processing.
Advances in Biolinguistics
Author | : Koji Fujita,Cedric A. Boeckx |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 323 |
Release | : 2016-02-12 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9781317486190 |
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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. Chapter 1 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.
Biolinguistics and Philosophy Insights and Obstacles
Author | : Elliot Murphy |
Publsiher | : Lulu.com |
Total Pages | : 271 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : 9781291186772 |
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Biolinguistic Investigations on the Language Faculty
Author | : Anna Maria Di Sciullo |
Publsiher | : John Benjamins Publishing Company |
Total Pages | : 238 |
Release | : 2016-11-24 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9789027266309 |
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The papers assembled in this volume aim to contribute to our understanding of the human capacity for language: the generative procedure that relates sounds and meanings via syntax. Different hypotheses about the properties of this generative procedure are under discussion, and their connection with biology is open to important cross-disciplinary work. Advances have been made in human-animal studies to differentiate human language from animal communication. Contributions from neurosciences point to the exclusive properties of the human brain for language. Studies in genetically based language impairments also contribute to the understanding of the properties of the language organ. This volume brings together contributions on theoretical and experimental investigations on the Language Faculty. It will be of interest to scholars and students investigating the properties of the biological basis of language, in terms the modeling of the language faculty, as well as the properties of language variation, language acquisition and language impairments.
Biolinguistic Investigations and the Formal Language Hierarchy
Author | : Juan Uriagereka |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 322 |
Release | : 2018-06-14 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9781351622264 |
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This volume collects some of Juan Uriagereka’s previously published pieces and presentations on biolinguistics in recent years in one comprehensive volume. The book’s introduction lays the foundation for the field of biolinguistics, which looks to integrate concepts from the natural sciences in the analysis of natural language, situating the discussion within the minimalist framework. The volume then highlights eight of the author’s key papers from the literature, some co-authored, representative of both the architectural and evolutionary considerations to be taken into account within biolinguistic research. The book culminates in a final chapter showcasing the body of work being done on biolinguistics within the research program at the University of Maryland and their implications for interdisciplinary research and future directions for the field. This volume is essential reading for students and scholars interested in the interface between language and the natural sciences, including linguistics, syntax, biology, archaeology, and anthropology.
Language in Cognition
Author | : Cedric Boeckx |
Publsiher | : John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 2010-04-29 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 1444310054 |
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This textbook explores the ways in which language informs the structure and function of the human mind, offering a point of entry into the fascinating territory of cognitive science. Focusing mainly on syntactic issues, Language in Cognition is a unique contribution to this burgeoning field of study. Guides undergraduate students through the core questions of linguistics and cognitive science, and provides tools that will help them think about the field in a structured way Uses the study of language and how language informs the structure and function of the human mind to introduce the major ideas in modern cognitive science, including its history and controversies Explores questions such as: what does it mean to say that linguistics is part of the cognitive sciences; how do the core properties of language compare with the core properties of other human cognitive abilities such as vision, music, mathematics, and other mental building blocks; and what is the relationship between language and thought? Includes an indispensable study guide as well as extensive references to encourage further independent study
Elementary Syntactic Structures
Author | : Cedric Boeckx |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 221 |
Release | : 2015 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9781107034099 |
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This book proposes a new model of syntax, in which all the fundamental units and properties of syntax are rethought.
Exploring Crash proof Grammars
Author | : Michael T. Putnam |
Publsiher | : John Benjamins Publishing |
Total Pages | : 316 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9789027208200 |
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The Minimalist Program has advanced a research program that builds the design of human language from conceptual necessity. Seminal proposals by Frampton & Gutmann (1999, 2000, 2002) introduced the notion that an ideal syntactic theory should be crash-proof . Such a version of the Minimalist Program (or any other linguistic theory) would not permit syntactic operations to produce structures that crash . There have, however, been some recent developments in Minimalism especially those that approach linguistic theory from a biolinguistic perspective (cf. Chomsky 2005 et seq.) that have called the pursuit of a crash-proof grammar into serious question. The papers in this volume take on the daunting challenge of defining exactly what a crash is and what a crash-proof grammar would look like, and of investigating whether or not the pursuit of a crash-proof grammar is biolinguistically appealing."