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Reflections on Syntax

Lectures in General Linguistics, Syntax, and Child Language Acquisition

Joseph Galasso (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

278 Seiten

2021 | New edition
Peter Lang Publishing Inc (Verlag)
978-1-4331-8432-1 (ISBN)

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The lectures in this book are immensely Chomskyan in spirit, recursive-syntactic in nature, and tethered to a framework which takes as the null hypothesis the notion that language is an innate, pre-determined biological system—a system which by definition is multi-complex, human-specific, and analogous to a philosophy highly commensurate of Descartes’ great proverbial adage which announces the calling for a ‘ghost-in-the-machine’. The book begins with a gradual assessment of the kinds of complex constructs students of syntax need to work-up. Leading to the classic ‘Four-Sentences’—each of which bears as a kind of post-mark its own decade of Chomskyan analysis—we trace the origins of generative grammar from the fields of child language acquisition (of the 1960s), to psycholinguistics (of the 1970s), to where we stand today within the Minimalist Program. Various spin-off proposals have been spawned by envisioned analyses which treat syntactic movement as the quintessential human processing—a processing which would give rise to human language. Such spin-offs include ‘Proto-language’ and a new treatment of the so-called morpho-syntactic ‘Dual Mechanism Model’.

Joseph Galasso (Ph.D., University of Essex) is on the Linguistics Faculty at California State University, Northridge and also lectures as adjunct at California State University, Long Beach. His main research and publications involve issues surrounding early child syntactic development.

List of Figures and Tables – Preface – Overview – Introduction – Opening Philosophical Questions: Language and Brain Analogies – Preliminary Overview – The ‘Four Sentences’ – Reflections on Syntax – Reasons for Syntactic Movement/‘Four Sentences’ Revisited – The Myth of ‘Function Defines Form’ as the Null-Biological Adaptive Process and the Counter Linguistics-Based Response. (The ‘Accumulative Lecture’) – Poverty of Stimulus – Concluding Remarks. The Dual Mechanism: Studies on Language – A Note on ‘Proto-language’: A Merge-Based Theory of Language Acquisition—Case, Agreement and Word Order Revisited – Concluding Remarks: Lack of Recursion Found in Protolanguage – A Note on the Dual Mechanism Model: Language Acquisition vs. Learning and the Bell-Shape Curve – Overview of Chomsky – Works Cited – List of Terms (informal definitions) – Full References and Web Links – Index.

“This book provides a fascinating and highly individual perspective on language. It deals with a wide range of topics including the philosophy of language, its biological basis and evolution, as well as language acquisition, language disorders, language processing and language universals.” —Andrew Radford, Emeritus Professor of Linguistics, University of Essex, United Kingdom

“Joseph Galasso builds a beautiful explanatory edifice that, engagingly, weaves together empirical evidence and current abstract theory of grammar in the best tradition of science: it combines ‘a passion for abstraction with a devotion to detail’. Implications for language acquisition, philosophy and every dimension of ‘biolinguistics’ are skillfully incorporated with a core representation of the concept of recursion. It should be very useful for scholars and students alike.” —Tom Roeper, Professor of Linguistics, UMass, South College

Erscheinungsdatum	29.09.2022
Reihe/Serie	Berkeley Insights in Linguistics and Semiotics ; 101
Mitarbeit	Herausgeber (Serie): Irmengard Rauch
Zusatzinfo	18 Illustrations, unspecified
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	150 x 225 mm
Gewicht	390 g
Themenwelt	Schulbuch / Wörterbuch
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Sprachphilosophie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-10	1-4331-8432-X / 143318432X
ISBN-13	978-1-4331-8432-1 / 9781433184321
Zustand	Neuware