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catalog abstract "Already hailed as a masterpiece, Foundations of Language offers a brilliant overhaul of the last thirty-five years of research in generative linguistics and related fields. "Few books really deserve the cliche 'this should be read by every researcher in the field,'" writes Steven Pinker, author of The Language Instinct. "But Ray Jackendoff's Foundations of Language does." Foundations of Language offers a radically new understanding of how language, the brain, and perception intermesh. The book renews the promise of early generative linguistics: that language can be a valuable entree into understanding the human mind and brain. The approach is remarkably interdisciplinary. Behind its innovations is Jackendoff's fundamental proposal that the creativity of language derives from multiple parallel generative systems linked by interface components. This shift in basic architecture makes possible a radical reconception of mental grammar and how it is learned. As a consequence, Jackendoff is able to reintegrate linguistics with philosophy of mind, cognitive and developmental psychology, evolutionary biology, neuroscience, and computational linguistics. Among the major topics treated are language processing, the relation of language to perception, the innateness of language, and the evolution of the language capacity, as well as more standard issues in linguistic theory such as the roles of syntax and the lexicon. In addition, Jackendoff offers a sophisticated theory of semantics that incorporates insights from philosophy of language, logic and formal semantics, lexical semantics of various stripes, cognitive grammar, psycholinguistic and neurolinguistic approaches, and the author's own conceptual semantics. Here then is the most fundamental contribution to linguistic theory in over three decades.".
catalog contributor b12407319.
catalog created "2002.".
catalog date "2002".
catalog date "2002.".
catalog dateCopyrighted "2002.".
catalog description "Already hailed as a masterpiece, Foundations of Language offers a brilliant overhaul of the last thirty-five years of research in generative linguistics and related fields. "Few books really deserve the cliche 'this should be read by every researcher in the field,'" writes Steven Pinker, author of The Language Instinct. "But Ray Jackendoff's Foundations of Language does." Foundations of Language offers a radically new understanding of how language, the brain, and perception intermesh. The book renews the promise of early generative linguistics: that language can be a valuable entree into understanding the human mind and brain. The approach is remarkably interdisciplinary. Behind its innovations is Jackendoff's fundamental proposal that the creativity of language derives from multiple parallel generative systems linked by interface components. This shift in basic architecture makes possible a radical reconception of mental grammar and how it is learned. As a consequence, Jackendoff is able to reintegrate linguistics with philosophy of mind, cognitive and developmental psychology, evolutionary biology, neuroscience, and computational linguistics. Among the major topics treated are language processing, the relation of language to perception, the innateness of language, and the evolution of the language capacity, as well as more standard issues in linguistic theory such as the roles of syntax and the lexicon. In addition, Jackendoff offers a sophisticated theory of semantics that incorporates insights from philosophy of language, logic and formal semantics, lexical semantics of various stripes, cognitive grammar, psycholinguistic and neurolinguistic approaches, and the author's own conceptual semantics. Here then is the most fundamental contribution to linguistic theory in over three decades.".
catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [431]-461) and index.".
catalog description "The complexity of linguistic structure -- Language as a mental phenomenon -- Combinatoriality -- Universal grammar -- The parallel architecture -- Lexical storage versus online construction -- Implications for processing -- An evolutionary perspective on the architecture -- Semantics as a mentalistic enterprise -- Reference and truth -- Lexical semantics -- Phrasal semantics.".
catalog extent "xix, 477 p. :".
catalog identifier "0198270127".
catalog issued "2002".
catalog issued "2002.".
catalog language "eng".
catalog publisher "Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press,".
catalog subject "401 21".
catalog subject "Biolinguistics.".
catalog subject "Generative grammar.".
catalog subject "Grammar, Comparative and general.".
catalog subject "P151 .J254 2002".
catalog subject "Semantics.".
catalog tableOfContents "The complexity of linguistic structure -- Language as a mental phenomenon -- Combinatoriality -- Universal grammar -- The parallel architecture -- Lexical storage versus online construction -- Implications for processing -- An evolutionary perspective on the architecture -- Semantics as a mentalistic enterprise -- Reference and truth -- Lexical semantics -- Phrasal semantics.".
catalog title "Foundations of language : brain, meaning, grammar, evolution / Ray Jackendoff.".
catalog type "text".