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Although there have been numerous investigations of biolinguistics
within the Minimalist Program over the last ten years, many of
which appeal to the importance of Turing's Thesis (that the
structural design of systems must obey physical and mathematical
laws), these studies have by and large ignored the question of the
structural design of language. They have paid significant attention
to identifying the components of language - settling on a lexicon,
a computational system, a sensorimotor performance system and a
conceptual-intentional performance system; however, they have not
examined how these components must be inter-structured to meet
thresholds of simplicity, generality, naturalness and beauty, as
well as of biological and conceptual necessity. In this book,
Stroik and Putnam take on Turing's challenge. They argue that the
narrow syntax - the lexicon, the Numeration, and the computational
system - must reside, for reasons of conceptual necessity, within
the performance systems. As simple as this novel design is, it
provides, as Stroik and Putnam demonstrate, radical new insights
into what the human language faculty is, how language emerged in
the species, and how language is acquired by children.
Although there have been numerous investigations of biolinguistics
within the Minimalist Program over the last ten years, many of
which appeal to the importance of Turing's Thesis (that the
structural design of systems must obey physical and mathematical
laws), these studies have by and large ignored the question of the
structural design of language. They have paid significant attention
to identifying the components of language - settling on a lexicon,
a computational system, a sensorimotor performance system and a
conceptual-intentional performance system; however, they have not
examined how these components must be inter-structured to meet
thresholds of simplicity, generality, naturalness and beauty, as
well as of biological and conceptual necessity. In this book,
Stroik and Putnam take on Turing's challenge. They argue that the
narrow syntax - the lexicon, the Numeration, and the computational
system - must reside, for reasons of conceptual necessity, within
the performance systems. As simple as this novel design is, it
provides, as Stroik and Putnam demonstrate, radical new insights
into what the human language faculty is, how language emerged in
the species, and how language is acquired by children.
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