Towards a biolinguistic understanding of grammar : essays on interfaces

Author(s)

• Di Sciullo, Anne-Marie

Bibliographic Information

Towards a biolinguistic understanding of grammar : essays on interfaces

edited by Anna Maria Di Sciullo

（Linguistik aktuell, v. 194）

John Benjamins, c2012

• : hardcover

Note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

The theoretical proposals brought forward in this book as well as the results from the reported experimental studies present genuine contributions to the biolinguistic program. The papers contribute to our understanding of the properties of the computations and the representations derived by the language faculty, viewed as an organism of human biological. Towards a Biolinguistic Understanding of Grammar: Essays on Interfaces adds to the usual notion of interfaces, which is generally understood as the connection between syntax and the semantic system, between phonology and the sensorimotor system. It raises novel interface questions about how these connections are at all possible within the biolinguistic program. It anchors the formal properties of grammar at the interfaces between language and biology, language and experience, bringing about language acquisition and language variation, and it also explores the interaction of grammar with the factors reducing complexity. This book aims to bring about further understanding of the interfaces of the grammar in a broader biolinguistic sense. Written in a language accessible to a wide audience, this book will appeal to scholars and students of linguistics, cognitive science, biology, and natural language processing.

Table of Contents

• 1. Interfaces in a biolinguistic perspective (by Di Sciullo, Anna Maria)
• 2. Part I. Syntax, semantics
• 3. Single cycle syntax and a constraint on quantifier lowering (by Lasnik, Howard)
• 4. A constraint on remnant movement (by Hunter, Tim)
• 5. Language and conceptual reanalysis (by Pietroski, Paul)
• 6. Part II. Features and interfaces
• 7. Decomposing force (by Isac, Daniela)
• 8. Function without content: Evidence from Greek subjunctive na (by Christodoulou, Christina)
• 9. The association of sound with meaning: The case of telicity (by Fujimori, Atsushi)
• 10. Part III. Phonology, syntax
• 11. Towards a bottom-up approach to phonological typology (by Reiss, Charles)
• 12. The emergence of phonological forms (by Samuels, Bridget D.)
• 13. Part IV. Language development
• 14. Non-native acquisition and language design (by Aguero-Bautista, Calixto)
• 15. Interface ingredients of dialect design: Bi-x, socio-syntax of development, and the grammar of Cypriot Greek (by Grohmann, Kleanthes K.)
• 16. Part V. Experimental studies
• 17. What sign languages show: Neurobiological bases of visual phonology (by Malaia, Evie)
• 18. Indeterminacy and coercion effects: Minimal representations with pragmatic enrichment (by de Almeida, Roberto G.)
• 19. Computation with doubling constituents: Pronouns and antecedents in phase theory (by Fong, Sandiway)
• 20. Concealed reference-set computation: How syntax escapes the parser's clutches (by Graf, Thomas)
• 21. Index

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Details

• NCID: BB10538681
• ISBN:
  • 9789027255778
• LCCN: 2012022406
• Country Code: ne
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia
• Pages/Volumes: vi, 367 p.
• Size: 25 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : P132
  • DC23 : 401
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Biolinguistics
  • LCSH : Grammar, Comparative and general -- Sytax
  • LCSH : Semantics
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA00524923