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Interdisciplinary perspectives on the evolutionary and biological roots of syntax, describing current research on syntax in fields ranging from linguistics to neurology.Syntax is …
A proposal that a single linguistic/cognitive system, "targeting," underlies two domains of reference, anaphora (speech-internal) and deixis (speech-external).In this book, Leonard …
A survey of computational methods for understanding, generating, and manipulating human language, which offers a synthesis of classical representations and algorithms with …
A presentation of music and language within an integrative, embodied perspective of brain mechanisms for action, emotion, and social coordination.This book explores the …
A journey through linguistic time and space, from Aristotle through the twentieth century's "era of syntax," in search of a dangerous verb and its significance.Beginning with the …
How embracing untranslatable terms for well-being-from the Finnish sisu to the Yiddish mensch-can enrich our emotional understanding and experience.Western psychology is rooted in …
Berwick and Chomsky draw on recent developments in linguistic theory to offer an evolutionary account of language and humans' remarkable, species-specific ability to acquire it."A …
A wide-ranging generative analysis of the typology of possession sentences, solving long-standing puzzles in their syntax and semantics.A major question for linguistic theory …
A groundbreaking, comprehensive formal theory of grammatical person that recasts its empirical foundations and re-envisions its theoretical core.Impossible Persons, Daniel …
An examination of the evidence for and the theoretical implications of a universal word order constraint, with data from a wide range of languages.This book presents evidence for a …