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Explaining Language Universals

Explaining Language Universals


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This book addresses one of the most fundamental questions that can be asked about language: how can we explain language universals? There are currently many different views on this question. Some argue for the innateness of general linguistic principles within the human species. Others see a more social foundation to language, with linguistic structure reflecting various communicative functions. Yet others appeal to the psychological demands placed upon language - users in producing and comprehending language in real time. Language is also seen as a reflection of our human perceptual and cognitive apparatus, and there are also more grammar-internal explanations, whereby one part of the grammar is explained by another. This volume brings together all of these different views. The contributors have each been asked to provide some general explanation for which they see evidence, and to provide illustrative universal data supporting it. Expertise from several related disciplines includes linguistic, psycholinguistics and computer science-neural computing and artificial intelligence. The book is divided into five sections: an introductory section on explaining language universals; a section on innateness and learnability; on semantic and pragmatic explanations; on cognitive, perceptual and processing explanations; and on the diachronic dimension in explanation.

Table of Contents:
Part 1 Introduction: explaining language universals, John A.Hawkins. Part 2 Innateness and Learnability: the innateness hypothesis, Teun Hoekstra and Jan G.Kooij Language acquisitions - schemas replace universal grammar, Michael A.Arbib and Jane C.Hill The "no negative evidence" problem - how do children avoid constructing an overly general grammar?, Melissa Bowerman. Max-Planck Institut fur Psycholinguistik, Nijmegen. Part 3 Semantic and Pragmatic Explanations: on semantics and the binding theory, Edward L.Keenan Concessive connecitves and concessive sentences - cross-linguistic regularities and pragmatic principles, Ekkehard Konig A discourse approach to the cross-linguistic category "adjective", Sandra A.Thompson Coreference and conjunction reduction in grammar and discourse, Bernard Comrie. Part 4 Cognitive, Perceptual and processing explanations: language, perception and the world, Michael Lee Parameterizing the language processing system - left-vs. right-branching within and across languages, Lyn Frazier and Keith Rayner Psycholinguistic factors in morphological asymmetry, John A.Hawkins, and Anne Cutler. Part 5 the diachronic dimension: integrating diachronic and processing principles in explaining the suffixing preference, Christopher J.Hall The diachronic dimension in explanation, Joan L.Bybee.

About the Author :
John A. Hawkins is Professor and Chairman of Department in Linguistics at the University of Southern California.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780631174561
  • Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
  • Publisher Imprint: Wiley-Blackwell
  • Height: 228 mm
  • No of Pages: 416
  • Spine Width: 22 mm
  • Width: 155 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0631174567
  • Publisher Date: 22 Feb 1990
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 652 gr


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