Interfaces + Recursion = Language? - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Interfaces + Recursion = Language? write by Uli Sauerland. This book was released on 2008-09-25. Interfaces + Recursion = Language? available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Human language is a phenomenon of immense richness: It provides finely nuanced means of expression that underlie the formation of culture and society; it is subject to subtle, unexpected constraints like syntactic islands and cross-over phenomena; different mutually-unintelligeable individual languages are numerous; and the descriptions of individual languages occupy thousands of pages. Recent work in linguistics, however, has tried to argue that despite all appearances to the contrary, the human biological capacity for language may be reducible to a small inventory of core cognitive competencies. The most radical version of this view has emerged from the Minimalist Program: The claim that language consists of only the ability to generate recursive structures by a computational mechanism. On this view, all other properties of language must result from the interaction at the interfaces of that mechanism and other mental systems not exclusively devoted to language. Since language could then be described as the simplest recursive system satisfying the requirements of the interfaces, one can speak of the Minimalist Equation: Interfaces + Recursion = Language. The question whether all the richness of language can be reduced to that minimalist equation has already inspired several fruitful lines of research that led to important new results. While a full assessment of the minimalist equation will require evidence from many different areas of inquiry, this volume focuses especially on the perspective of syntax and semantics. Within the minimalist architecture, this places our concern with the core computational mechanism and the (LF-)interface where recursive structures are fed to interpretation. Specific questions that the papers address are: What kind of recursive structures can the core generator form? How can we determine what the simplest recursive system is? How can properties of language that used to be ascribed to the recursive generator be reduced to interface properties? What effects do syntactic operations have on semantic interpretation? To what extent do models of semantic interpretation support the LF-interface conditions postulated by minimalist syntax?
Interfaces in Language 3
Interfaces in Language 3 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Interfaces in Language 3 write by Vikki Janke. This book was released on 2014-08-11. Interfaces in Language 3 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This third volume of the Interfaces in Language series brings together a collection of papers which were presented at the University of Kent’s Interfaces in Language 3 conference of May 2011. In line with the conference’s title, applications which held true to the interface theme were invited, yet no restrictions were placed on the way in which ‘interface’ was interpreted. A range of talks were thus included, some of which conformed to established demarcations within the discipline, others of which flouted them entirely and unashamedly. All were welcome. The result was a heterogeneous set of talks, interspersed with and complemented by lively discussions, confirming that the interdisciplinary setting staged was a successful way of cultivating discussion between linguists who might otherwise not cross paths. The papers chosen for publication here include both diachronic and synchronic approaches to language, generative and non-generative frameworks, as well as typological and theory-driven perspectives. The result can only be described as an eclectic mix. We invite the reader to decide upon its success.
Language Change at the Interfaces
Language Change at the Interfaces - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Language Change at the Interfaces write by Nicholas Catasso. This book was released on 2022-04-15. Language Change at the Interfaces available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This volume offers an up-to-date survey of linguistic phenomena at the interfaces between syntax and prosody, information structure and discourse – with a special focus on Germanic and Romance – and their role in language change. The contributions, set within the generative framework, discuss original data and provide new insights into the diachronic development of long-burning issues such as negation, word order, quantifiers, null subjects, aspectuality, the structure of the left periphery, and extraposition. The first part of the volume explores interface phenomena at the intrasentential level, in which only clause-internal factors seem to play a significant role in determining diachronic change. The second part examines developments at the intersentential level involving a rearrangement of categories between at least two clausal domains. The book will be of interest for scholars and students interested in generative accounts of language change phenomena at the interfaces, as well as for theoretical linguists in general.
The Syntax-Phonology Interface in Focus and Topic Constructions in Italian
The Syntax-Phonology Interface in Focus and Topic Constructions in Italian - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Syntax-Phonology Interface in Focus and Topic Constructions in Italian write by M. Frascarelli. This book was released on 2013-03-09. The Syntax-Phonology Interface in Focus and Topic Constructions in Italian available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "...this work represents a key case study in the study of the prosody and syntax interactions." (Pilar Prieto, Lingua 115, 2005)
Language Change at the Syntax-Semantics Interface
Language Change at the Syntax-Semantics Interface - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Language Change at the Syntax-Semantics Interface write by Chiara Gianollo. This book was released on 2014-12-12. Language Change at the Syntax-Semantics Interface available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Bringing together diachronic research from a variety of perspectives, notably typology, formal syntax and semantics, this volume focuses on the interplay of syntactic and semantic factors in language change - an issue so far largely neglected both in (mostly lexical) historical semantics as well as historical syntax, but recently brought into focus by grammaticalization theory as well as Minimalist diachronic syntax. The contributions draw on data from numerous Indo-European languages including Vedic Sanskrit, Middle Indic, Greek as well as English and German, and discuss a range of phenomena such as change in negation markers, indefinite articles, quantifiers, modal verbs, argument structure among others. The papers analyze diachronic evidence in the light of contemporary syntactic and semantic theory, addressing the crucial question of how syntactic and semantic change are linked, and whether both are governed by similar constraints, principles and systematic mechanisms. The volume will appeal to scholars in historical linguistics and formal theories of syntax and semantics.
