The philosophy of universal grammar / Prof Wolfram Hinzen, Michelle Sheehan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hinzen, Wolfram.

Contributor:

Sheehan, Michelle.

Series:

Oxford linguistics The philosophy of universal grammar

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Grammar, Comparative and general.

Ontology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (401 p.)

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This text considers the relationship between language and thought from a philosophical perspective, drawing both on the philosophical study of language and the purely formal study of grammar, and arguing that the two should align. Evidence is considered from biology, the evolution of language, language disorders, and linguistic phenomena.

Contents:

Cover; The Philosophy of Universal Grammar; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; WH; MS; List of Abbreviations; Introduction; 1: The project of a science of language; 1.1 Grammar as a domain of inquiry; 1.2 Cartesian linguistics, 1637-1966; 1.3 Ancient India; 1.4 The Modistic viewpoint; 1.5 Conclusions; 2: Before there was grammar; 2.1 Overview; 2.2 Where semantics begins; 2.3 Lexicalization: the creation of the lexical atom; 2.4 Concepts - intentionality - intensionality - grammar - reference; 2.5 Parts of speech and their grammatical semantics; 2.6 The modes of signifying reloaded

4.4.3 Semantic approaches to the essential indexical4.4.4 The hierarchy of reference revealed through Romance object clitics; 4.4.4.1 Predicative clitics; 4.4.4.2 Accusative clitics, weak and strong; 4.4.4.3 Dative clitics; 4.4.4.4 Additional a-marking in strong accusative and dative nominals; 4.4.4.5 Personal clitics; 4.4.5 Summary; 4.5 Conclusions; 5: Cross-linguistic variation; 5.1 The apparent problem of linguistic variation; 5.2 Linguistic variation vs. grammatical variation; 5.3 Diagnosing grammatical variation; 5.4 Revisiting the head parameter

5.5 Revisiting the null subject parameter5.6 Revisiting the alignment parameter; 5.7 Conclusions; 6: The rationality of Case; 6.1 The apparent irrationality of Case; 6.2 What do the Cases mean?; 6.3 Vergnaud's conjecture and 'abstract Case'; 6.4 The Case filter, reference, and Tense; 6.5 Event mereology and Case; 6.6 Conclusions; 7: Language and speciation; 7.1 Why linguistics is biology; 7.2 Language evolution in a new key; 7.3 The speciation of modern Homo sapiens; 7.4 Conclusions; 8: Biolinguistic variation; 8.1 Questioning double dissociations in developmental language disorders

8.2 Thought in genetically normal language-less or language-impaired adults8.3 Thought without the linguistic genotype; 8.4 Variation in the linguistic genotype; 8.5 Formal thought disorder and the de-integration of grammar; 8.6 Grammatical meaning in the brain; 8.7 Conclusions; 9: Thought, language, and reality; 9.1 The nature of semantics; 9.2 How can it be that truth is a grammatical concept?; 9.3 The grammar of truth: a unified account; 9.4 The limit of grammar and the limits of thought; 9.5 Language and reality; 9.6 Is there a science of thought?; 9.7 Conclusions; References; Index

Notes:

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

1-306-04638-6

0-19-162642-2

OCLC:

870284566