A theory of syntax : minimal operations and universal grammar / Norbert Hornstein.
Hornstein, Norbert| Call Number | 415 |
| Author | Hornstein, Norbert, author. |
| Title | A theory of syntax : minimal operations and universal grammar / Norbert Hornstein. |
| Physical Description | 1 online resource (ix, 194 pages) : digital, PDF file(s). |
| Notes | Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015). |
| Contents | Minimalism and Darwin's problem -- Deriving c-command -- Labels, recursion and movement -- Some thoughts on adjunction -- The emerging picture : basic operations, FL and the minimalist program -- Stop AGREEing! keep moving! -- Conclusions, consequences and more questions. |
| Summary | Human language seems to have arisen roughly within the last 50-100,000 years. In evolutionary terms, this is the mere blink of an eye. If this is correct, then much of what we consider distinctive to language must in fact involve operations available in pre-linguistic cognitive domains. In this book Norbert Hornstein, one of the most influential linguists working on syntax, discusses a topical set of issues in syntactic theory, including a number of original proposals at the cutting edge of research in this area. He provides a theory of the basic grammatical operations and suggests that there is only one that is distinctive to language. If this theory is correct then this narrows the evolutionary gap between verbal and non-verbal primates, thus facilitating the rapid evolutionary emergence of our linguistic capacity. |
| Subject | Grammar, Comparative and general Syntax. Minimalist Theory (Linguistics) Language and languages Origin. EVOLUTION. |
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| Summary | Human language seems to have arisen roughly within the last 50-100,000 years. In evolutionary terms, this is the mere blink of an eye. If this is correct, then much of what we consider distinctive to language must in fact involve operations available in pre-linguistic cognitive domains. In this book Norbert Hornstein, one of the most influential linguists working on syntax, discusses a topical set of issues in syntactic theory, including a number of original proposals at the cutting edge of research in this area. He provides a theory of the basic grammatical operations and suggests that there is only one that is distinctive to language. If this theory is correct then this narrows the evolutionary gap between verbal and non-verbal primates, thus facilitating the rapid evolutionary emergence of our linguistic capacity. |
| Notes | Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015). |
| Contents | Minimalism and Darwin's problem -- Deriving c-command -- Labels, recursion and movement -- Some thoughts on adjunction -- The emerging picture : basic operations, FL and the minimalist program -- Stop AGREEing! keep moving! -- Conclusions, consequences and more questions. |
| Subject | Grammar, Comparative and general Syntax. Minimalist Theory (Linguistics) Language and languages Origin. EVOLUTION. |
| Multimedia |