24.2498, Books: The Structural Design of Language: Stroik, Putnam

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From: Joyce Reid [jreid at cambridge.org]
Subject: The Structural Design of Language: Stroik, Putnam

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Title: The Structural Design of Language 
Publication Year: 2013 
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
	   http://us.cambridge.org
	

Book URL: http://www.cambridge.org/us/knowledge/isbn/item7075770/?site_locale=en_US 


Author: Thomas S. Stroik
Author: Michael T. Putnam

Hardback: ISBN:  9781107034839 Pages: 205 Price: U.S. $ 90.00


Abstract:

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.

Table of Contents

1. The biolinguistic turn
2. The structure of the lexicon
3. Constructing the numeration
4. Copy and the computational system
5. Some structural consequences for derivations
6. Observations on performance system interpretations
7. Conclusions and challenges
 



Linguistic Field(s): Evolution of Language
                     Language Acquisition
                     Syntax


Written In: English  (eng)

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