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Reflections on Syntax - Lectures in General Linguistics, Syntax, and Child Language Acquisition (Hardcover, New edition)
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Reflections on Syntax - Lectures in General Linguistics, Syntax, and Child Language Acquisition (Hardcover, New edition)
Series: Berkeley Insights in Linguistics and Semiotics, 101
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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'.
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