30.2002, Books: Syntax with oscillators and energy levels: Tilsen

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Date: Fri, 10 May 2019 17:10:08
From: Sebastian Nordhoff [Sebastian.Nordhoff at langsci-press.org]
Subject: Syntax with oscillators and energy levels: Tilsen

 


Title: Syntax with oscillators and energy levels 
Series Title: Studies in Laboratory Phonology  

Publication Year: 2019 
Publisher: Language Science Press
	   http://langsci-press.org
	

Book URL: http://langsci-press.org/catalog/book/197 


Author: Sam Tilsen

Electronic: ISBN:  9783961101573 Pages: 335 Price: Europe EURO 0 Comment: Open Access


Abstract:

This book presents a new approach to studying the syntax of human language,
one which emphasizes how we think about time. Tilsen argues that many current
theories are unsatisfactory because those theories conceptualize syntactic
patterns with spatially arranged structures of objects. These
object-structures are atemporal and do not lend well to reasoning about time.
The book develops an alternative conceptual model in which oscillatory systems
of various types interact with each other through coupling forces, and in
which the relative energies of those systems are organized in particular ways.
Tilsen emphasizes that the two primary mechanisms of the approach –
oscillators and energy levels – require alternative ways of thinking about
time. Furthermore, his theory leads to a new way of thinking about
grammaticality and the recursive nature of language. The theory is applied to
a variety of syntactic phenomena: word order, phrase structure, morphosyntax,
constituency, case systems, ellipsis, anaphora, and islands. The book also
presents a general program for the study of language in which the construction
of linguistic theories is itself an object of theoretical analysis.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Syntax


Written In: English  (eng)

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