Language Evolution and Syntactic Theory - 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 Evolution and Syntactic Theory write by Anna R. Kinsella. This book was released on 2009-07-23. Language Evolution and Syntactic Theory available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Discusses the relationship between Chomskyan syntactic theory and the evolution of language.
Language Acquisition and Syntactic Theory
Language Acquisition and Syntactic Theory - 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 Acquisition and Syntactic Theory write by A.E. Pierce. This book was released on 2012-12-06. Language Acquisition and Syntactic Theory available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The theory of language acquisition is a young but increasingly active field. Language Acquisition and Syntactic Theory presents one of the first detailed studies of comparative syntax acquisition. It is informed by the view that linguists and acquisitionists are essentially working on the same problem, that of explaining grammar learnability. The author takes cross-linguistic data from child language as evidence for recent proposals in syntactic theory. Developments in the structure of children's sentences during the first few years of life are traced to changes in the setting of specific grammatical parameters. Some surprising differences between the early child grammars of French and English are uncovered, differences that can only be explained on the basis of subtle distinctions in inflectional structure. This motivates the author's claim that functional or nonthematic categories are represented in the grammars of very young children. The book also explores the relationship between acquisition and diachronic change in French and English. It is argued that findings in acquisition, when viewed from a parameter setting perspective, provide answers to important questions arising in the study of language change. The book promises to be of interest to all those involved in the formal, psychological or historical study of linguistic knowledge.
Evolution and Revolution in Linguistic Theory
Evolution and Revolution in Linguistic Theory - 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 Evolution and Revolution in Linguistic Theory write by Héctor Campos. This book was released on 1996-01-01. Evolution and Revolution in Linguistic Theory available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This volume presents essays by some of the leading figures in the vanguard of theoretical linguistics within the framework of universal grammmar. One of the first books to adopt the "minimalist" framework to syntactic analysis, it includes a central essay by Noam Chomsky on the minimalist program and covers a range of topics in syntax and morphology. Contributors: Luigi Burzio, Héctor Campos, Noam Chomsky, Joseph E. Emonds, Robert Freidin, James Harris, Ray Jackendoff, Paula Kempchinsky, Howard Lasnik, Claudia Parodi, Carlos Piera, A. Carlos Quicoli, Dominique Sportiche, Esther Torrego.
Language Evolution and Syntactic Theory
Language Evolution and Syntactic Theory - 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 Evolution and Syntactic Theory write by Anna R Kinsella. This book was released on 2010-05-01. Language Evolution and Syntactic Theory available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Discusses the relationship between Chomskyan syntactic theory and the evolution of language.
Approaches to the Evolution of Language
Approaches to the Evolution of 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 Approaches to the Evolution of Language write by James R. Hurford. This book was released on 1998-09-17. Approaches to the Evolution of Language available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This is one of the first systematic attempts to bring language within the neo-Darwinian framework of modern evolutionary theory, without abandoning the vast gains in phonology and syntax achieved by formal linguistics over the past forty years. The contributors, linguists, psychologists, and paleoanthropologists, address such questions as: what is language as a category of behavior; is it an instrument of thought or of communication; what do individuals know when they know a language; what cognitive, perceptual, and motor capacities must they have to speak, hear, and understand a language? For the past two centuries, scientists have tended to see language function as largely concerned with the exchange of practical information. By contrast, this volume takes as its starting point the view of human intelligence as social, and of language as a device for forming alliances, in exploring the origins of the sound patterns and formal structures that characterize language.
