The Conduct of Linguistic Inquiry
| Author | : Rudolf P. Botha |
| Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
| Total Pages | : 484 |
| Release | : 2017-12-04 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 3110822946 |
Linguistic Inquiry
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The Reflexivity of Language and Linguistic Inquiry
| Author | : Dorthe Duncker |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 229 |
| Release | : 2018-11-09 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 1351060376 |
This book explores the reflexivity of language both from the perspective of the lay speaker and the linguistic analyst. Linguistic inquiry is conditional upon linguistic reflexivity, but so is language. Without linguistic reflexivity, we would not be able to make sense of everyday linguistic communication, and the idea of a language would not be conceivable. Not even fundamental notions such as words or meaning would exist. Linguistic reflexivity is a feature of the communication process, and it essentially depends on situated participants and time. It is a defining characteristic of the human language but despite its obvious importance, it is not very well understood theoretically, and it is strangely under-researched empirically. Throughout history and in modern linguistics, it has mostly either been taken for granted, misconstrued, or ignored. Only integrational linguistics fully recognizes its specifically linguistic implications. However, integrational linguistics does not provide the necessary methodological basis for investigating linguistic phenomena empirically. This catch-22 situation means that the goal of the book is twofold: one part is to explore the reflexivity of language theoretically, and the other part is to propose an applied integrational linguistics and to implement this proposal in practice.
The Architecture of the Language Faculty
| Author | : Ray Jackendoff |
| Publisher | : MIT Press |
| Total Pages | : 284 |
| Release | : 1997 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 9780262600255 |
Ray Jackendoff steps back to survey the broader theoretical landscape in linguistics, in an attempt to identify some of the sources of the widely perceived malaise with respect to much current theorizing. Over the past twenty-five years, Ray Jackendoff has investigated many complex issues in syntax, semantics, and the relation of language to other cognitive domains. He steps back in this new book to survey the broader theoretical landscape in linguistics, in an attempt to identify some of the sources of the widely perceived malaise with respect to much current theorizing. Starting from the "Minimalist" necessity for interfaces of the grammar with sound, meaning, and the lexicon, Jackendoff examines many standard assumptions of generative grammar that in retrospect may be seen as the product of historical accident. He then develops alternatives more congenial to contemporary understanding of linguistic phenomena. The Architecture of the Language Faculty seeks to situate the language capacity in a more general theory of mental representations and to connect the theory of grammar with processing. To this end, Jackendoff works out an architecture that generates multiple co-constraining structures, and he embeds this proposal in a version of the modularity hypothesis called Representational Modularity. Jackendoff carefully articulates the nature of lexical insertion and the content of lexical entries, including idioms and productive affixes. The resulting organization of the grammar is compatible with many different technical realizations, which he shows can be instantiated in terms of a variety of current theoretical frameworks. Linguistic Inquiry Monograph No. 28
Some Concepts and Consequences of the Theory of Government and Binding
| Author | : Noam Chomsky |
| Publisher | : MIT Press |
| Total Pages | : 132 |
| Release | : 1982 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9780262530422 |
While the study of government and binding is an outgrowth of Chomsky's earlier work in transformational grammar, it represents a significant shift in focus and a new direction of investigation into the fundamentals of linguistic theory.
A Syntax of Substance
| Author | : David Adger |
| Publisher | : MIT Press |
| Total Pages | : 203 |
| Release | : 2013 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 0262518309 |
A new approach to grammar and meaning of relational nouns is presented along with its empirical consequences.
Syntax of Scope
| Author | : Joseph Aoun |
| Publisher | : MIT Press |
| Total Pages | : 244 |
| Release | : 1993 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 9780262510684 |
Syntax of Scope takes up the issue of relative operator scope in generative grammar and offers a comparative study of quantifiers and interrogative wh-operators.
(Re)labeling
| Author | : Carlo Cecchetto |
| Publisher | : MIT Press |
| Total Pages | : 209 |
| Release | : 2015-01-30 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 0262327236 |
A new theory of labeling that sheds light on such syntactic phenomena as relativization, successive cyclicity, island phenomena, and Minimality effects. When two categories merge and a new syntactic object is formed, what determines which of the two merged categories transmits its properties one level up—or, in current terminology, which of the two initial categories labels the new object? In (Re)labeling, Carlo Cecchetto and Caterina Donati take this question as the starting point of an investigation that sheds light on longstanding puzzles in the theory of syntax in the generative tradition. They put forward a simple idea: that words are special because they can provide a label for free when they merge with some other category. Crucially, this happens even when a word merges with another category as a result of syntactic movement. This means that a word has a “relabeling” power in that the structure resulting from its movement can have a different label from the one that the structure previously had. Cecchetto and Donati argue that relabeling cases triggered by the movement of a word are pervasive in the syntax of natural languages and that their identification sheds light on such phenomena as relativization, explaining for free why relatives clauses have a nominal distribution, successive cyclicity, island effects, root phenomena, and Minimality effects.
Linguistic Inquiry
| Author | : |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 806 |
| Release | : 1996 |
| Genre | : Language and languages |
| ISBN | : |
Research on current topics in linguistic theory, including new theoretical developments based on the latest international discoveries.
Children's Inquiry
| Author | : Judith Wells Lindfors |
| Publisher | : Teachers College Press |
| Total Pages | : 274 |
| Release | : 1999 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 9780807738375 |
This fascinating exploration of children's inquiry -- what it is, how it develops, and how it contributes to children's learning -- will help teacher educators and elementary teachers to understand, appreciate, and foster children's inquiry in classrooms. In this volume. Lindfors introduces a theoretical framework for understanding children's inquiry language -- not as linguistic forms (questions), but as communication acts in which the child brings another into the act of sense-making.
The Antisymmetry of Syntax
| Author | : Richard S. Kayne |
| Publisher | : MIT Press |
| Total Pages | : 220 |
| Release | : 1994-12-14 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 9780262611077 |
It is standardly assumed that Universal Grammar (UG) allows a given hierarchical representation to be associated with more than one linear order. This book proposes a restrictive theory of word order and phrase structure that denies this assumption. According to this theory, phrase structure always completely determines linear order, so that if two phrases differ in linear order, they must also differ in hierarchical structure. It is standardly assumed that Universal Grammar (UG) allows a given hierarchical representation to be associated with more than one linear order. For example, English and Japanese phrases consisting of a verb and its complement are thought of as symmetrical to one another, differing only in linear order. The Antisymmetry of Syntax proposes a restrictive theory of word order and phrase structure that denies this assumption. According to this theory, phrase structure always completely determines linear order, so that if two phrases differ in linear order, they must also differ in hierarchical structure. More specifically, Richard Kayne shows that asymmetric c-command invariably maps into linear precedence. From this follows, with few further hypotheses, a highly specific theory of word order in UG: that complement positions must always follow their associated head, and that specifiers and adjoined elements must always precede the phrase that they are sister to. A further result is that standard X-bar theory is not a primitive component of UG. Rather, X-bar theory expresses a set of antisymmetric properties of phrase structure. This antisymmetry is inherited from the more basic antisymmetry of linear order. Linguistic Inquiry Monograph No. 25
