Chomsky's Universal Grammar

Oxford University Press, 2007. 388 pp. ISBN: 978-0-19-929741-2 This work focuses on the relatively neglected grammar of names, thus crucially on their morphology and syntax. These areas have not aroused the kind of interest and controversy associated with (the status of) the semantics of names. The study of names made here, however, assumes that grammar is notional, or ontologically based. Thus we shall explore the association between the structu...

Издательство CSLI Publications, 1998, -212 pp. During the last few years, a new approach to language processing has started to emerge This approach, which has become known under the name of "Data Oriented Parsing" or "DOP"1, embodies the assumption that human language comprehension and production works with representations of concrete past language experiences, rather than with abstract grammatical rules The models that instantiate this approach...

N. Y. : Cambridge Univ. Press, 2006.— xviii, 190 p. This is the long-awaited third edition of Chomsky’s outstanding collection of essays on language and mind. The first six chapters, originally published in the 1960s, made a groundbreaking contribution to linguistic theory. This new edition complements them with an additional chapter and a new preface, bringing Chomsky’s influential approach into the twenty-first century. Chapters 1—6 present Ch...

In this profound work Noam Chomsky discusses themes in the study of language and mind science. This edition includes a new and specially written introduction by James McGilvray, contextualizing the work for the 21st century. All the French and German in the original edition has been translated, and the notes and bibliography have been brought up to date.

The first chapter provides an introduction to some basic con- cepts of linguistic theory and to some elements of the history of the fieldwhich are crucial for understanding certain theoretical questions addressed in the following chapters. The second chapter is related to a particular occasion. Chomsky’s sojourn in Siena was organized twenty years after his visit to the Scuola Normale Superiore of Pisa, an event which, through the memorable Pisa...

Cambridge University Press, 2002 - Language Arts & Disciplines - 341 p. Comparison of the grammars of human languages reveals systematic patterns of variation. Typology and universals research uncovers those patterns to formulate universal constraints on language and seek their exploration. In this essential textbook, William Croft presents a comprehensive introduction to the method and theory used in studying typology and universals. The the...

Linguistik Aktuell / Linguistics Today Pages: 316 Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company (2003) Quality: good: pdf Asymmetry in Grammar: Morphology, Phonology and Acquisition presents evidence that asymmetry, as a property of linguistic relations, is salient in grammar. The papers in morphology bring further evidence for the centrality of asymmetry in word-structure. It is shown that asymmetry is part of the internal structure of functiona...

Publisher: Basic Books. Publication date: 1995. Number of pages: 256. Format / Quality: DJVU. From Library Journal. In the late 1950s, Noam Chomsky revolutionized linguistics by proposing that the infant's ability to learn language cannot be explained by simple learning principles but is dependent upon the existence of complex, innate mental structures. Jackendoff explains the current state of Chomskyan theory by organizing his book around the qu...

Joan Bybee and her colleagues present a new theory of the evolution of grammar that links structure and meaning in a way that directly challenges most contemporary versions of generative grammar. This study focuses on the use and meaning of grammatical markers of tense, aspect, and modality and identifies a universal set of grammatical categories. The authors demonstrate that the semantic content of these categories evolves gradually and that thi...

Research in Afroasiatic Grammar Vol. II Author: J. Lecarme (Editor) Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company Publication date: 2003 Number of pages: 559 The 22 articles in this volume grew from papers presented at the Paris Conference on Afroasiatic Languages (CAL 5), which was held at University of Paris 7, France, on June 28–30, 2000. It was the fitfh of a series initiated in Paris 1992, continued in Sophia Antipolis 1994, Sophia Antipolis...