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Mind Design and Minimal Syntax (Hardcover)
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Mind Design and Minimal Syntax (Hardcover)
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This book introduces generative grammar as an area of study and
asks what it tells us about the human mind. Wolfram Hinzen lays the
foundation for the unification of modern generative linguistics
with the philosophies of mind and language. He introduces Chomsky's
program of a "minimalist"
syntax as a novel explanatory vision of the human mind. He explains
how the Minimalist Program originated in work in cognitive science,
biology, linguistics, and philosophy, and examines its implications
for work in these fields. He considers the way the human mind is
designed when seen as an
arrangement of structural patterns in nature, and argues that its
design is the product not so much of adaptive evolutionary history
as of principles and processes that are ahistorical and internalist
in character. Linguistic meaning, he suggests, arises in the mind
as a consequence of structures
emerging on formal rather than functional grounds. From this he
substantiates an unexpected and deeply unfashionable notion of
human nature.
Clearly written in nontechnical language and assuming a limited
knowledge of the fields it examines and links, Minimal Mind Design
will appeal to a wide range of scholars in linguistics, philosophy,
and cognitive science. It also provides an exceptionally clear
insight into the nature and aims of
Chomsky's Minimalist Program.
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