The primacy of grammar

The primacy of grammar / Nirmalangshu Mukherji.

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...

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Main Author: Mukherji, Nirmalangshu
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2010.
Subjects:
Biolinguistics.
Language and languages > Philosophy.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > General.
Biolinguistics
Language and languages > Philosophy
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Table of 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.

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