33.3401, Books: Language as sound with meaning: Nordström

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Date: Wed, 02 Nov 2022 22:31:46
From: Ulrich Lueders [contact at lincom.eu]
Subject: Language as sound with meaning: Nordström

 


Title: Language as sound with meaning 
Subtitle: A dual model of language 
Series Title: LINCOM Studies in Theoretical Linguistics 67  

Publication Year: 2022 
Publisher: Lincom GmbH
	   https://lincom-shop.eu/
	

Book URL: https://lincom-shop.eu/LSTL-67-Language-as-sound-with-meaning/en 


Author: Jackie Nordström

Hardback: ISBN:  9783969391327 Pages: 213 Price: Europe EURO 156


Abstract:

Language as sound with meaning
A dual model of language

Jackie Nordström
Goethe-Universität Frankfurt  

This book argues that the language faculty merely consists of the semantic and
phonological components and linking between these and other systems. Thus,
there is no third intermediate component, narrow syntax, it is argued. Syntax,
as a phenomenon, is instead distributed among the semantic and phonological
components, the semantic component containing lexical semantics, abstract
universal categories, argument structures and information structures and the
phonological component containing the concrete assembly of phonological
morphemes into words and phonological words into phrases and sentences. Thus,
language can be defined as "sound with meaning", as pointed out by Aristotle,
"signifier and signified" (Saussure 1916), or more precisely the pair
<phonology, semantics> (Chomsky 2004).
 The hypothesis is a continuation of the Minimalist Program (Chomsky 1995),
which is a rationalistic and evolutionary enterprise within the framework of
Generative Grammar aiming to reduce the machinery assumed to be needed for the
language faculty to operate. The hypothesis is also an elaboration of
Culicover and Jackendoff’s (2005) theory of a minimal syntactic component and
a semantic and a phonological component that also have combinatorial
processes. Lastly, it builds further on Stroik and Putnam’s (2013) theory of a
syntax that is located in an intersection between the CI- and SM-systems.  

ISBN 9783969391327. LINCOM Studies in Theoretical Linguistics 67. 213 pp.
2022.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Linguistic Theories
                     Phonology


Written In: English  (eng)

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