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The primacy of grammar / Nirmalangshu Mukherji.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Mukherji, Nirmalangshu.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Biolinguistics.
- Language and languages--Philosophy.
- Language and languages.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (299 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Biolinguistics - especially the work of Noam Chomsky - suggests that the design of language may be 'perfect': language is an optimal solution to conditions of sound and meaning. What is the scope of this inquiry? Which aspect of nature does this science investigate? This book is a study of such foundational questions.
- Contents:
- The loneliness of biolinguistics. Some classical issues
- Limits of cognitive inquiry
- Overview of biolinguistics
- Language and biology
- A body of doctrines
- A mind-internal system
- Linguistic theory I. Russell's scope problem
- Principles and parameters
- Government-binding theory
- D-structure
- C-selection
- X-bar theory
- Theta theory
- S-structure
- Case theory
- Wh-movement
- Binding theory
- LF
- Grammar and scope problem
- Grammar and logic. Chinese room
- PFR and SFR
- LF and logical form
- Truth and meaning
- Limits of formal semantics
- External significance
- Syntax of thought?
- Russell's equivalence
- Summing up
- Words and concepts. "Incompleteness" of grammar
- Lexical data
- Uncertain intuitions
- Nature of lexical inquiry
- Lexical decomposition
- Initial objections
- Nouns
- Verbs
- Crossroads
- Linguistic theory II. Minimalist program
- Conceptual necessity
- Feature checking
- (New) merge
- Merge and syntax
- Merge and semantics
- Economy principles
- Chl and linguistic specificity
- Principles
- Displacement
- Language and music. Musilanguage hypothesis
- Evidence
- What the evidence means
- Strong musilanguage hypothesis
- Music and meaning
- Themes from Wittgenstein
- Music and emotions
- Internal significance
- Recursion in music
- A joint of nature. Merge and music
- Faculty of music
- "Laws of nature"
- Forms of explanation
- Scope of computationalism.
- Notes:
- "A Bradford book."
- OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-262-29163-0
- 1-282-54194-3
- 9786612541940
- 0-262-28031-0
- OCLC:
- 608691498
- Publisher Number:
- 9786612541940
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