Symmetry Breaking and Symmetry Restoration - Evidence from English Syntax of Coordination

This book treats the faculty of language as part of the Universe subject to physical laws. It presents phenomena from syntax and semantics in the interdisciplinary context. The author analyses the origin of syntax and semantics as autonomous modules (asymmetry), even though they display parallelisms (symmetry). He presents linguistic phenomena in the interdisciplinary context where spontaneous symmetry breaking has a central explanatory role, as it is the case in the physical world.

List of contents

Symmetry - Asymmetry - Antisymmetry - Symmetry breaking - Spontaneous symmetry breaking - Symmetry restoration - Coordination - Subordination - Parataxis - Adjunction - Merge - Concatenate - Syntactic categories - Reprojection - Minimalist Program - Recursion protolanguage - Language faculty - Dissymetry - Syntax - Semantics

About the author

Szymon J. Napieräa has studied English and Psychology and received his doctorate degree in English at the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznä, Poland.

Product details

• Authors: Szymon J. Napiera¿a, Szymon Napierala, Szymon J. Napierala
• Assisted by: Piotr Stalmaszczyk (Editor)
• Publisher: Peter Lang
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.06.2017
• EAN: 9783631673874
• ISBN: 978-3-631-67387-4
• No. of pages: 170
• Dimensions: 148 mm x 16 mm x 210 mm
• Weight: 320 g
• Series: Studies in Philosophy of Language and Linguistics; Studies in Philosophy of Language and Linguistics
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Other languages / Other literatures