Overview
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’.
Full Product Details
Author: Irmengard Rauch ,
Joseph Galasso
Publisher: Peter Lang Publishing Inc
Imprint: Peter Lang Publishing Inc
Edition: New edition
Volume: 101
Weight: 0.390kg
ISBN: 9781433184321
ISBN 10: 143318432
Pages: 278
Publication Date: 30 July 2021
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
This book provides a fascinating and highly individual perspective on language. It deals with a wide range of topics including the philosophy of language, its biological basis and evolution, as well as language acquisition, language disorders, language processing and language universals. -Andrew Radford, Emeritus Professor of Linguistics, University of Essex, United Kingdom Joseph Galasso builds a beautiful explanatory edifice that, engagingly, weaves together empirical evidence and current abstract theory of grammar in the best tradition of science: it combines 'a passion for abstraction with a devotion to detail'. Implications for language acquisition, philosophy and every dimension of 'biolinguistics' are skillfully incorporated with a core representation of the concept of recursion. It should be very useful for scholars and students alike. -Tom Roeper, Professor of Linguistics, UMass, South College
Joseph Galasso builds a beautiful explanatory edifice that, engagingly, weaves together empirical evidence and current abstract theory of grammar in the best tradition of science: it combines 'a passion for abstraction with a devotion to detail'. Implications for language acquisition, philosophy and every dimension of 'biolinguistics' are skillfully incorporated with a core representation of the concept of recursion. It should be very useful for scholars and students alike. -Tom Roeper, Professor of Linguistics, UMass, South College This book provides a fascinating and highly individual perspective on language. It deals with a wide range of topics including the philosophy of language, its biological basis and evolution, as well as language acquisition, language disorders, language processing and language universals. -Andrew Radford, Emeritus Professor of Linguistics, University of Essex, United Kingdom
Author Information
Joseph Galasso (Ph.D., University of Essex) is on the Linguistics Faculty at California State University, Northridge and also lectures as adjunct at California State University, Long Beach. His main research and publications involve issues surrounding early child syntactic development.
