A Quantum Theory of Syntax / Paul Trouillas.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Trouillas, Paul, author.

Series:

Languages and linguistics series.

Languages and Linguistics Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Quantum theory.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (383 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Nova Science Publishers, Inc., [2024]

Summary:

"In this book, the author hypothesizes that syntax, precisely defined, is a cultural and functional autonomous entity, with a profound specificity and particular internal mechanisms. We speak of a "basic syntax." We would like to understand how all types of human beings in the entire world, and possibly for millenia, have organized a basic sequence of their words, so that they can describe their environment, and express their thoughts, feelings and beliefs"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Introduction: Towards Basic Syntax

Part I. Basic Syntax

Chapter 1

Syntax: A Model Established by the Ancient Greeks and Apollonius Dyscolus

Syntax: A Progressive Individualization

Proposing a Definition for Syntax: Word Order and Agreement

Chapter 2

The Origin of the Distinction between Basic Syntax and Grammar

A Philosophical Basis for the Distinction between Basic Syntax and Grammatical Morphology: Constraint

Freedom of Subordinate Clauses, Constraint of Their Syntax: A Philosophical Distinction

A Super-Minimalist Approach Based on the Constraint Principle

Accomplishing a Clarification on the Basis of the Constraint Principle

The Core of a Constraint-Defined Basic Syntax

Chapter 3

Further Observations: Cultural and Neural Basic Syntax

The Syntactic Cultural Phenomenon: Word Order and Agreement

Verb Syntax, Gender/Number Syntax: A Cultural Relationship between Syntax and Lexicon

Towards a Basic Syntax in the Brain

Part II. Cultural Basic Syntax: The Operatorial Quantum Scheme

Chapter 4

The Operatorial Quantum Nature of Basic Syntax: The Verb

The Operatorial Function of the Verb

A General Operatorial Function

Operate, Possibly Not Merge: A Quantum Immaterial Conception

The Probable Relevance of "Operate"

Operatorial Verbs: Clues to Quantum Coded Complexity

The Question of a Verb Meaning Code

Operatorial Verb: The Verb Infinitive Principle

Chapter 5

Other Operatorial Quantum Words in Basic Syntax: Adjectives and Adverbs

Adjectives as Operatorial Signs

The Cultural Quantic Aspects of Adjectives: Meanings, Arguments and Phrase Types

Modifying Adverbs as Operatorial Quantum Signs

Chapter 6

Prepositions, Interjections, Oral and Written Punctuation: Presumed Small Syntactic Tools, Considerable Quantum Powers.

The Dynamic World of Prepositions

Prepositional Symbolism and Operatorial Quantum Coding

Interjections, Verbal and Written Punctuation as Operatorial Agents

Chapter 7

A Basic Quantum Duality of Words in Basic Syntax: Substantive Words and Operatorial Words

The Existence of Non-Operatorial Words

Substantives and Operatorials: The Composite Syntactic Nature of the Sentence

The Principle of Preferred Substantive-Operatorial Coexistence

The Specific Originality of Substantives

Part III. Cultural Basic Syntax: The Operatorial Quantum Model

Chapter 8

The First Operatorial Quantum Stage of Syntax: The Computus

Online Operatorial Chain Processing: The Syntactic Computus

The Core of Computus: Quantic and Successive Executions

The Principle of Automaticity and Independence of the Syntactic Computus: the Obligatory Easy "Path"

Perplexed Computus "Path" in Ambiguous Syntactic Presentations: Receptive Dilemma

Computus: The Theoretical Intimate Model

Operatorial Computus: Neural Quantum Reflections

Working "Stack" Memory Implication in Computus

Computus Models: Towards an Artificial "Computusator"

Chapter 9

Computus Components: "Building-Down" Word Order

The Word Order Building Issue in The Would-Be Gentleman

A Conformity Checking with Basic "Canonical" Word Order

"Construct": A Decoding Substage Using Principally a Position Code (13)

On a Possible "Thematic Word Order." The Quantic Word-Order Code

A "Building-Down" Neural Phase

Computer Programs of Sentence Structure Building Analysis

Chapter 10

Computus Components: The Word-Meaning Frequency/Predictability Management Process

A Word-Meaning Management Stage

The First Subprocess: Word-Meaning Frequency/Predictability Evaluation

An Infrequency/Unpredictability Assistance Subprocess.

Clues to Word-Meaning Frequency/Predictability Quantum Phase in the Brain

Computational Attempts

Chapter 11

The Final Operatorial Quantum Sentence Processing Stage: Sentence Meaning Production

The Syntactic Operatorial Result

The Operatorial Result is the Production of Sentence Meaning: A Convergence with Bertrand Russell

Clues to the Cultural Existence of an Online Sentence Literal Meaning Final Stage

The Principle of Automatic and Independent Syntactic Literal Sentence Meaning Production

Sentence Literal Meaning Production: A Basic Quantum Representation

Meaning Production Stack Memory. Quickness of Literal Meaning

Neural Reflections of Syntactic Meaning Production

On Artificial Sentence Meaning Production

Chapter 12

A Two-Stage Operatorial Model of Syntactic Sentence Processing, Including Meaning Production

A Global Two-Stage Model of Syntactic Reception, Including Meaning Production

The Sentence Processes in Education and Culture

A Serial Quantum Model: From Culture to Implementation in Brain

Part IV. Neural Basic Syntax: The Quantum Model and the Neuronal Codes

Chapter 13

Intracranial Potentials: Syntactic and Meaning Quantum Signatures

Fedorenko et al.'s 2016 Publication: A Brain Electrical Counterpart for a Receptive Sentence Word-Capture Stage

Nelson et al.'s 2017 Publication: A Comprehensive Exploration of Direct Brain Activity in Receptive Syntactic Processing

Nelson's Study: Separate Word-Related Peaks and a Special End-of-Sentence Phase

Nelson's Study: Quantitative Data Concerning Overall Sentence Processing

A Quantum View Of the Nelson Study: In Search of Computus and Meaning Production Stages in the Brain

Chapter 14

Extracranial Potentials: Insights into a Quantum Model Involving Sentence Significance

A First Word-Peak Phase in Receptive Situation.

Word Peak Phase: The Early Left Anterior Negativity (ELAN) Component

Word-Peak Phase: The N400, a Component Involved in Word-Meaning Predictability in Context

A Final Electrically Positive Processing Phase: The Last P600

P600 Quantitative Enhancement, Denotation and Sense

The Two-Stage Operatorial-Quantic Model, Including Meaning, Tends to Fit with the Two-Phase Scalp Electrical Waveform

Chapter 15

In Search of Syntactic and Meaning Quantum Neurons, and Their Electrical Codes

Neural Oscillatory Modulations: Other Electrical Codes for Word Order, Plausibility, Humour and Memory?

Towards the Codes of Single Syntactic Neurons

Towards the Deciphering of Syntactic-Meaning Neuronal Code(s)

Part V. Philosophy of Quantum Basic Syntax

Chapter 16

Basic Syntax: The Great Socio-Neuronal Project

The Extreme Diversity of Cultural Basic Syntaxes across the World

The Heart of Basic Syntax: Constraint

Syntactic Constraint: Social Syntactic Quantum Unification

Syntactic Constraint: Operatorial Absoluteness and Quantum Structuration

Syntactic Constraint: Unified Quantic Neuronal Processing

Chapter 17

Basic Syntax: The Informational Leap and Its Consequences

Basic Syntax: The Operatorial Mutation

Operatorial Basic Syntax: A Contribution to Complex Information

Basic Syntax, Basic Meanings

Chapter 18

Basic Syntax and Truth

Meaning and Truth: The First Syntactic Level

First Syntactic Truth Level: Accounting for Truth Complexity

The Second Level of Sentence Truth: The Speaker's Thought

The Problem of Logical and Experimental Truth

Experimental Truth Is the Real Truth Product Used in Natural Language

"The King of France Is Bald" Is an Absolutely True Sentence with a Particular Sentence Producer

Sentence Truth Evaluation in Reception

A Quantum View of Truth.

Neural Clues Supporting a Quantic View of the Truth/Falsehood System

Conclusion: The Human Syntactic Condition

The Operatorial Leap and Its Brain Counterparts

Basic Syntax: Anthropological Progress

Basic Syntax Processing: The Philosophical Problem of Automaticity

Syntax and Truth: The Tragic Node

Epilogue

Notes

Introduction: Notes

Chapter 1: Notes

Chapter 2: Notes

Chapter 3: Notes

Chapter 4: Notes

Chapter 5: Notes

Chapter 6: Notes

Chapter 7: Notes

Chapter 8: Notes

Chapter 9: Notes

Chapter 10: Notes

Chapter 11: Notes

Chapter 12: Notes

Chapter 13: Notes

Chapter 14: Notes

Chapter 15: Notes

Chapter 16: Notes

Chapter 17: Notes

Chapter 18: Notes

Conclusion: Notes

References

Index

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ISBN:

979-88-911-3742-4