Foundations of Language: Brain, Meaning, Grammar, Evolution

Zusatztext An excellent overview of the complexities of language Informationen zum Autor Ray Jackendoff is the author of Semantics and Cognition, Consciousness and the Computational Mind, The Architecture of the Language Faculty, and (with Fred Lerdahl) A Generative Theory of Tonal Music. He has been Professor of Linguistics at Brandeis University since 1971. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a past president of the Society for Philosophy and Psychology. Zusammenfassung Proposes a holistic theory of the relation between the sounds, structure, and meaning of language and their relation to mind and brain. This work aims to offer fundamental thinking in linguistics since Noam Chomsky's "Aspects of the Theory of Syntax" in 1965. It also provides insights on the evolution of language, thought, and communication. Inhaltsverzeichnis Part I: Psychological and Biological Foundations 1: The Complexity of Linguistic Structure 2: Language as a Mental Phenomenon 3: Combinatoriality 4: Universal Grammar Part II: Architectural Foundations 5: The Parallel Architecture 6: Lexical Storage Versus Online Construction 7: Implications for Processing 8: An Evolutionary Perspective on the Architecture Part III: Semantic and Conceptual Foundations 9: Semantics as a Mentalistic Enterprise 10: Reference and Truth 11: Lexical Semantics 12: Phrasal Semantics 13: Concluding Remarks

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• Authors: Ray Jackendoff, Ray (Co-Director Jackendoff, Jackendoff Ray
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 04.09.2003
• EAN: 9780199264377
• ISBN: 978-0-19-926437-7
• No. of pages: 498
• Dimensions: 173 mm x 243 mm x 28 mm
• Subjects: Education and learning; Humanities, art, music > Humanities (general); SOCIAL SCIENCE / General, Philosophy of Language, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General, PSYCHOLOGY / Developmental / Child, Grammar, syntax & morphology, Historical & comparative linguistics, Language acquisition, Grammar, syntax and morphology, Computational Linguistics, Psycholinguistics and cognitive linguistics, Computational and corpus linguistics