Author: René DirvenPublisher: Gunter Narr Verlag
ISBN: 9783878085652
Category : Grammar, Comparative and general
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
Issues in the Theory of Universal Grammar
Author: René DirvenPublisher: Gunter Narr Verlag
ISBN: 9783878085652
Category : Grammar, Comparative and general
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
Issues in the theory of universal grammar
Author: Chomsky's Universal Grammar
Author: Vivian J. CookPublisher: Wiley-Blackwell
ISBN: 1405111879
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
The 3rd edition of Chomsky’s Universal Grammar introduces the reader to Noam Chomsky’s theory of language by setting the specifics of syntactic analysis in the framework of his general ideas. Updated and revised to include a broader range of issues and discussion topics Traces the development of Chomsky's thinking and of the Minimalist Program since 1995, providing a new picture of this current model of syntactic theory Introduces both the general concepts of the theory of Universal Grammar and the main areas of syntax such as X-bar theory, movement and government/binding theory Includes discussion topics, exercises, and suggestions for further readings in each chapter
Empirical Linguistics
Author: Geoffrey SampsonPublisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1847144314
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
Linguistics has become an empirical science again after several decades when it was preoccupied with speakers' hazy "intuitions" about language structure. With a mixture of English-language case studies and more theoretical analyses, Geoffrey Sampson gives an overview of some of the new findings and insights about the nature of language which are emerging from investigations of real-life speech and writing, often (although not always) using computers and electronic language samples ("corpora"). Concrete evidence is brought to bear to resolve long-standing questions such as "Is there one English language or many Englishes?" and "Do different social groups use characteristically elaborated or restricted language codes?" Sampson shows readers how to use some of the new techniques for themselves, giving a step-by-step "recipe-book" method for applying a quantitative technique that was invented by Alan Turing in the World War II code-breaking work at Bletchley Park and has been rediscovered and widely applied in linguistics fifty years later.
A Theory of Syntax
Author: Norbert HornsteinPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521449707
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 205
Book Description
Discusses a topical set of issues in syntactic theory, including a number of original proposals at the cutting edge of research in this area. The book provides a theory of the basic grammatical operations and suggests that there is only one that is distinctive to language.
Second Language Acquisition and Universal Grammar
Author: Lydia WhitePublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521796477
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
Table of contents
Language and Social Minds
Author: Vittorio TantucciPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108484824
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 207
Book Description
Proposes a new empirical model to analyse how humans can express social cognition at different levels of complexity.
Point Counterpoint
Author: Lynn EubankPublisher: John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN: 9027224641
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 450
Book Description
Point Counterpoint offers a series of papers and replies originally presented at a special session of the Second Language Research Forum, UCLA, March 1989. The focus of the papers is primarily the role of Universal Grammar in second language acquisition, though the agenda also includes discussion of other fundamental questions, viz., the explanatory potential of linguistic theory in native-language development. It may come as no surprise that the contributors and their respondents often present very different perspectives on the issues, for most of the authors were known in advance to hold contrasting points of view. Contributors (c) and Respondents (r) are: Wolfgang Klein (c)/Nina Hyams (r); Sascha Felix (c)/Jacquelyn Schachter (r); Suzanne Flynn & Sharon Manuel (c)/David Birdsong (r); Lydia White (c)/Robert Bley-Vroman (r); Peter Jordens (c)/Lynn Eubank (r); Jurgen Meisel (c)/Bonnie Schwartz (r); Sharon Hilles (c)/William O'Grady (r); Daniel Finer (c)/Margaret Thomas (r); Usha Lakshmanan (c)/Nina Hymans & Ken Safir (r).
The Philosophy of Universal Grammar
Author: Wolfram HinzenPublisher: Oxford University Press (UK)
ISBN: 0199654832
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 401
Book Description
This interdisciplinary book considers the relationship between language and thought from a philosophical perspective, drawing both on the philosophical study of language and the purely formal study of grammar, and arguing that the two should align. The claim is that grammar provides homo sapiens with the ability to think in certain grammatical ways and that this in turn explains the vast cognitive powers of human beings. Evidence is considered from biology, theevolution of language, language disorders, and linguistic phenomena.
The Oxford Handbook of Universal Grammar
Author: Ian G. RobertsPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199573778
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 673
Book Description
''This handbook provides a critical guide to the most central proposition in modern linguistics: the notion, generally known as universal grammar, that a universal set of structural principles underlies the grammatical diversity of the world's languages. It will be a vital reference for linguists, philosophers, and cognitive scientists.''--