Towards a biolinguistic understanding of grammar : essays on interfaces / edited by Anna Maria Di Sciullo.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Di Sciullo, Anne-Marie, 1951-

Series:

Linguistik aktuell ; Bd. 194.

Linguistik aktuell/linguistics today ; v. 194

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Biolinguistics.

Grammar, Comparative and general--Sytax.

Grammar, Comparative and general.

Semantics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (373 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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

Contents:

Towards a Biolinguistic Understanding of Grammar; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; Interfaces in a biolinguistic perspective; 1. Syntax, semantics; 2. Features and interfaces; 3. Phonology, syntax; 4. Language development; 5. Experimental studies; Acknowledgements; References; Part I. Syntax, semantics; Single cycle syntax and a constraint on quantifier lowering; 1. Quantifier lowering: Some history; 2. QL: Some alternative treatments; 3. The empirical difficulty: QL is much less general than it is expected to be; 4. Towards a theory?

5. A new approach (one excluding lowering in general, but allowing genuine low scope in limited circumstances)6. Concluding remarks; References; A constraint on remnant movement; 1. Introduction; 2. Remnant movement and the JOC; 3. Early motivation: German "incomplete category fronting"; 3.1 The JOC and Müller's UD; 4. Apparent counterexamples: The VP/TP domain; 5. Negative preposing (Kayne 1998); 6. SVO, SOV and VSO word order; 7. Verb-second as remnant vP-fronting; 8. Conclusion; References; Language and conceptual reanalysis; 1. Human languages as instruction generators; 1.1 'I' Before 'E'

1.2 Executable expressions 1.3 Available operations; 1.4 Illustrating introduction; 2. Limited Conjunction Can Do a Lot; 2.1 Varieties of conjunction; 2.2 Minimal Dyadicity; 2.3 Final remarks; References; Part II. Features and interfaces; Decomposing force; 1. Introduction: Decomposition; 2. Imperatives; 2.1 General properties; 2.2 Two types of imperatives: true vs. surrogate; 2.3 Two classes of true imperatives; 3. A modality feature; 3.1 Negation and modality; 3.2 More on modality; 3.2.1 Modality in imperatives; 3.2.2 Addressee orientation in imperatives; 3.2.3 Time of evaluation; 4. Account

5. Modality and 2nd person features in imperatives: The analysis 5.1 True imperatives; 5.2 Surrogate imperatives - Subjunctives; 5.3 Surrogate imperatives: Infinitives; 6. Conclusions; References; Function without content; 1. Introduction; 2. Dissociating function from content; 2.1 Evidence from tenseless languages; 2.2 Evidence from tenseless constructions; 2.3 Summary; 3. Greek subjunctive na spells out the anchoring function of INFL; 3.1 The distribution of na; 3.2 na spells out [u coin]; 4. The timing of spell out; 5. Evidence from the use of na by individuals diagnosed with Down Syndrome

6. Conclusion References; The association of sound with meaning; 1. Introduction; 2. The correspondence in existing verbs; 2.1 How to find verbal telicity; 2.2 Yamato-Japanese verb stems; 2.3 The non-low vowels correspond to verbal telicity in existing verbs; 2.3.1 Monosyllabic transitive verb stems; 2.3.2 Bisyllabic transitive verb stems; 3. The correspondence in nonce verbs; 3.1 General experimental design; 3.1.1 Subjects; 3.1.2 The task; 3.1.3 Stimuli; 3.1.3.1 Sound tokens; 3.1.3.2 Video clips; 3.2 Monosyllabic nonce verbs; 3.3 Bisyllabic nonce verbs; 4. Implications for phonology

5. Concluding remarks

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786613906762

9781283594318

1283594315

9789027273413

9027273413

OCLC:

811502503