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Meaning and the Lexicon - The Parallel Architecture 1975-2010 (Paperback)
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Meaning and the Lexicon - The Parallel Architecture 1975-2010 (Paperback)
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Meaning and the Lexicon brings together 35 years of pathbreaking
work on language by Ray Jackendoff. It traces the development of
his Parallel Architecture, in which phonology, syntax, and
semantics are independent generative components, and in which
knowledge of language consists of a repertoire of stored
structures. Some of these structures, such as words and morphemes,
are idiosyncratic mappings between phonology, syntax, and meaning;
some, such as idioms, attach meaning to larger syntactic
structures; other structures are purely syntactic or
morphosyntactic; and yet others are pieces of meaning with no
syntactic or phonological form. The Parallel Architecture also
seeks to explain and understand how language is integrated with
human cognition, particularly with vision.
Professor Jackendoff examines inherently meaningful syntactic
constructions, incorporating insights from Construction Grammar;
and he looks at how aspects of meaning can be unexpressed but
nevertheless understood, integrating approaches from Generative
Lexicon theory. A recurring focus is the balance in grammar between
idiosyncrasy, regularity, and semiregularity. The chapters cover a
wide range of phenomena, from well-studied domains such as the
mass-count distinction, event structure, resultatives, and
noun-noun compounds, to offbeat aspects of English grammar such as
the time-away construction (We're twistin' the night away),
contrastive focus reduplication (Do you LIKE-him-like him?) and the
noun-preposition-noun construction (week after week).
Ray Jackendoff draws on work in a wide range of fields, including
linguistics, cognitive science, and philosophy. His writing
combines depth of thought with clarity and wit. Meaning and the
Lexicon will be read and enjoyed by linguists of all theoretical
persuasions, and will be of great interest to cognitive scientists,
philosophers, and anyone interested in how language operates in the
mind, brain, and human communication.
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