Filter by
The minimalist program
In his foundational book published in 1995, the author offered a significant contribution to the generative tradition in linguistics. This twentieth-anniversary edition reissues this classic work with a new preface by the author. The author attempts to situate linguistic theory in the broader cognitive sciences, with the chapters formulating and progressively developing the minimalist approach …
- Edition
- 20th anniversary edition.
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780262327282
- Collation
- 1 online resource
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- -
Concepts, syntax, and their interface :the Theta System
A systematic exposition of Reinhart's Theta System, with extensive annotations and essays that capture subsequent developments. One of Tanya Reinhart's major contributions to linguistic theory is the development of the Theta System (TS), a theory of the interface between the system of concepts and the linguistic computational system. Reinhart introduced her theory in a seminal paper, “The …
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780262333177
- Collation
- 1 online resource (xvi, 262 pages).
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- -
Image, language, brain : papers from the First Mind Articulation Project Symp…
Revised papers from a symposium held November 16-17, 1998 in Tokyo.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780262303040
- Collation
- 1 online resource (x, 272 pages) : illustrations
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- -
Modularity in knowledge representation and natural-language understanding
"A Bradford book."The notion of modularity, introduced by Noam Chomsky and developed with special emphasis on perceptual and linguistic processes by Jerry Fodor in his important book The Modularity of Mind, has provided a significant stimulus to research in cognitive science. This book presents essays in which a diverse group of philosophers, linguists, psycholinguists, and neuroscientists--inc…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780262071055
- Collation
- 1 online resource (ix, 427 pages) :illustrations.
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- -
Biological foundations and origin of syntax
Syntax is arguably the most human-specific aspect of language. Despite the proto-linguistic capacities of some animals, syntax appears to be the last major evolutionary transition in humans that has some genetic basis. Yet what are the elements to a scenario that can explain such a transition? In this book, experts from linguistics, neurology and neurobiology, cognitive psychology, ecology and …
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780262258586
- Collation
- 1 online resource (xviii, 471 pages) :illustrations (some color).
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- -
Foundational Issues in Linguistic Theory : Essays in Honor of Jean-Roger Verg…
The essays in this volume attest to the importance of Verngaud's contribution to linguistics, particularly his influential work on foundational issues. The essays first discuss issues in syntax, documenting breakthroughs in the development of the principles and parameters framework.
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- -
- Collation
- 1 online resource (xxxii, 389 pages) : illustrations.
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- -
Supertagging :using complex lexical descriptions in natural language processing
The last decade has seen computational implementations of large hand-crafted natural language grammars in formal frameworks such as Tree-Adjoining Grammar (TAG), Combinatory Categorical Grammar (CCG), Head-driven Phrase Structure Grammar (HPSG), and Lexical Functional Grammar (LFG). Grammars in these frameworks typically associate linguistically motivated rich descriptions (Supertags) with word…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780262312486
- Collation
- 1 online resource (xxiii, 488 pages :illustrations)
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- -
The primacy of grammar
The contemporary discipline of biolinguistics is beginning to have the feel of scientific inquiry. Biolinguistics—especially the work of Noam Chomsky—suggests that the design of language may be “perfect”: language is an optimal solution to conditions of sound and meaning. What is the scope of this inquiry? Which aspect of nature does this science investigate? What is its relation to the…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780262280310
- Collation
- 1 online resource (xix, 278 pages) :illustrations, music
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- -
Structures in the Mind: Essays on Language, Music, and Cognition in Honor of …
The introduction includes appreciations of Ray Jackendoff by various authors.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780262331791
- Collation
- 1 online resource (xxxiv, 404 pages) :illustrations
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- -
Japanese morphophonemics :
The sound pattern of Japanese, with its characteristic pitch accent system and rich segmental alternations, has played an important role in modern phonology, from structuralist phonemics to current constraint-based theories. In Japanese Morphophonemics, Junko Ito and Armin Mester provide the first book-length treatment of central issues in Japanese phonology from the perspective of Optimality T…
- Edition
- 1
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9.78026E+12
- Collation
- -
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- -
Computer Science, Information & General Works 
Philosophy & Psychology 
Religion 
Social Sciences 
Language 
Pure Science 
Applied Sciences 
Art & Recreation 
Literature 
History & Geography