| Description |
1 online resource (477 p.) |
| Contents |
Cover -- Representation of Language: Philosophical Issues in a Chomskyan Linguistics -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- Brief Contents -- Detailed Contents -- Guide to the Reader -- Introduction and Synopsis -- Part I: The Core Linguistic Theory -- Chapter 1: The Core Galilean Idea and Some Crucial Data -- 1.1 An Internalist "Galilean" Idealization -- 1.1.1 Internalist vs. Social Conceptions -- 1.1.2 A Galilean Theory and Crucial Data -- 1.2 Competence vs. Performance -- 1.3 Typical WhyNots -- 1.3.1 Purely Syntactic Cases -- (i) Island Constraints |
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(Ii) Constraints on Contraction -- (iii) Ellipses -- (iv) Parasitic Gaps -- 1.3.2 Possibly Mixed Syntax, Semantics, or Pragmatic Cases -- (i) Binding Phenomena -- (ii) (Negative/Positive) Polarity Items (NPIs/PPIs) -- (iii) Structural Constraints on Meaning -- 1.4 Performance Issues -- 1.4.1 Grammatical but Unacceptable -- 1.4.2 Acceptable but not Grammatical -- 1.5 Further Evidence -- 1.5.1 Productivity -- 1.5.2 Creativity -- 1.5.3 Relations between Forms -- 1.5.4 Constrained Homophony (or "Ambiguity") -- 1.5.5 Stability of Acquisition -- 1.5.6 Speed of Stable Acquisition |
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1.5.7 Poverty and Corruption of Stimulus Data -- 1.5.8 No Negative Data -- 1.5.9 Independence of General Intelligence -- 1.5.10 A "Critical Period" -- 1.5.11 Universality of Grammatical Principles and Parameters -- 1.5.12 Spontaneous Languages of the Deaf -- 1.5.13 Absence of Logically Simple Languages -- 1.5.14 "The Linguists' Paradox" -- Chapter 2: The Basics of Generative Grammars -- 2.1 Philosophical Beginnings -- 2.2 Stages of the Core Theory -- 2.2.1 Logical Constructivism: LSLT and Syntactic Structures -- 2.2.2 Psychology and Explanatory Adequacy: the "Standard" "Aspects" Model |
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2.2.3 From Phonemes to Features -- 2.2.4 Constraining the Rules: The Extended Standard Model -- 2.2.5 Resisting Teleo-tyranny: Semanticsand "the Autonomy of Syntax -- (i) Teleo-tyranny -- (ii) Surprising Consequences for Linguistics -- 2.2.6 Generative vs. Interpretive Semantics -- 2.2.7 GB/P&P: Addressing Plato's Problemand Linguistic Diversity -- 2.2.8 Crucial Move from Hypothesized Rulesto Mechanical Principles -- 2.2.9 The Minimalist Program -- 2.2.10 The "Third Factor": Darwinian and Neural Speculations -- 2.3 Some Simple Proposed Explanations -- 2.3.1 C-command |
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2.3.2 (Negative) Polarity Items -- 2.3.3 Binding Phenomena -- 2.4 Conclusion -- Chapter 3: Competence/Performance: Determinate I- vs. E-languages -- 3.1 Conventional vs. Non-Conventional Grammars -- 3.2 I- vs. E-language -- 3.3 Behaviorism and Quine's Problems -- 3.3.1 The Motivations for Behaviorism -- 3.3.2 The Poverty of Behaviorism -- 3.3.3 Extensionally Equivalent Grammars -- 3.3.4 Explicit vs. Implemented ("Implicit") Rules and Structures -- 3.4 Other Superficialist Objections -- 3.4.1 "Nothing Hidden" (Wittgenstein, Ryle, Baker and Hacker, and Chater) |
| Summary |
Georges Rey presents a much-needed philosophical defense of Noam Chomsky's famous view of human language, as an internal, innate computational system. But he also offers a critical examination of problematic developments of this view, to do with innateness, ontology, intentionality, and other issues of interdisciplinary interest |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780192597748 |
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0192597744 |
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