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Author:   Anna Maria Di Sciullo (Professor of Linguistics, University of Quebec in Montreal and Director of the Major Collaborative Research Initiative on Interface Asymmetries) ,  Cedric Boeckx (Catalan Institute for Advanced Studies (ICREA) and Department of Linguistics at the) ,  Universitat de Barcelona
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 4.40cm , Length: 23.80cm
Weight:   1.018kg
ISBN:  

9780199553273

ISBN 10:   0199553270
Pages:   576
Publication Date:   17 March 2011
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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"1: Anna Maria Di Sciullo and Cedric Boeckx: Introduction: Contours of the Biolinguistic Research Agenda Part One: Evolution 2: Robert Berwick and Noam Chomsky: The Biolinguistic Program: The Current State of its Evolution 3: Cedric Boeckx: Some Reflections on Darwin's Problem in the Context of Cartesian Biolinguistics 4: Robert Berwick: Syntax Facit Saltum Redux: Biolinguistics and the Leap to Syntax 5: Massimo Piatelli-Palmarini and Juan Uriagereka: A Geneticist's Dream, a Linguist's Nightmare: The Case of FOXP2 6: Lyle Jenkins: Biolinguistic Investigations: Genetics and Dynamics 7: Tecumseh Fitch: ""Deep Homology"" in the Biology and Evolution of Language Part Two: Variation 8: Lyle Jenkins: The Three factors in Evolution and variation 9: Charles Yang: Three Factors in Language Variation 10: Cedric Boeckx: Approaching Parameters from Below 11: Rita Manzini and Leonardo Savoia: (Bio)linguistic Diversity 12: Giuseppe Longobardi and Cristina Guardiano: The Biolinguistic Program and historical Reconstruction 13: Anna Maria Di Sciullo: A Biolinguistic Approach to Variation Part Three: Computation 14: Richard Kayne: Antisymmetry and the Lexicon 15: Howard Lasnik: What Kind of Computing Device is the Human Language Faculty? 16: Richard Larson: Clauses, Propositions, and Phases 17: Alessandra Giorgi: Reflections on the Optimal Solution: On the Syntactic Representation of Indexicality 18: Wolfram Hinzen: Emergence of a Systemic Semantics Through Minimal and underspecified Codes 19: Carlo Cecchetto and Costanza Papagno: Bridging the Gap Between Brain and Syntax. A Case for a Role of the Phonological Loop 20: Robert Berwick: All you Need is Merge: Biology, Computation, and language from the Bottom-up References Index"

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Overall, the quality of work is high. ... The collection reveals connections across projects and shows how research from different fields substantiates the idea that human language is - and is to be studied as - a biological phenomenon. Paul Pietroski, Language

Featured in The Quarterly Review of Biology.

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Anna Maria Di Sciullo is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Quebec in Montreal and the director of the Major Collaborative Research Initiative on Interface Asymmetries. She held visiting positions at MIT and at the University of Venice. She is the author of Asymmetry in Morphology (2005), UG and External Systems (2005), Asymmetry in Grammar (2003), Projections and Interface Conditions: Essays on Modularity (1997), and co-authored with Edwin Williams On the Definition of Word (1987). She is the founder of the International Network on Biolinguistics. Cedric Boeckx is Research Professor at the Catalan Institute for Advanced Studies (ICREA), and a member of the Center for Theoretical Linguistics at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Most recently he was Associate Professor of Linguistics at Harvard University. He is the author of Islands and Chains (2003), Linguistic Minimalism (2006), Understanding Minimalist Syntax (2007), Bare Syntax (2008), and Language in Cognition (2009); and the founding co-editor, with Kleanthes K. Grohmann, of the Open Access journal Biolinguistics.

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