14.3245, Books: Cognitive Science: Wiese/Baker

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Subject: 14.3245, Books: Cognitive Science: Wiese/Baker

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1)
Date:  Tue, 25 Nov 2003 11:08:54 -0500 (EST)
From:  jreid at cup.org
Subject:  Numbers, Language, and the Human Mind: Wiese

2)
Date:  Tue, 25 Nov 2003 11:05:53 -0500 (EST)
From:  jreid at cup.org
Subject:  Lexical Categories: Baker

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Date:  Tue, 25 Nov 2003 11:08:54 -0500 (EST)
From:  jreid at cup.org
Subject:  Numbers, Language, and the Human Mind: Wiese

Title: Numbers, Language, and the Human Mind

Publication Year: 2003

Publisher: Cambridge University Press
	   http://www.cup.org

Book URL:
http://us.cambridge.org/titles/catalogue.asp?isbn=0521831822

Availability: Available

Author: Heike Wiese, Humboldt University, Berlin

Hardback: ISBN: 0521831822, Pages: 362, Price:  U.S.: 75
Hardback: ISBN: 0521831822, Pages: 362, Price:  U.K.: 50

Abstract:

What constitutes our number concept? What makes it possible for us to
employ numbers the way we do; which mental faculties contribute to our
grasp of numbers? What do we share with other species, and what is
specific to humans? How does our language faculty come into the
picture? This book addresses these questions and discusses the
relationship between numerical thinking and the human language
faculty, providing psychological, linguistic, and philosophical
perspectives on number, its evolution, and its development in
children. Heike Wiese argues that language as a human faculty plays a
crucial role in the emergence of systematic numerical thinking. She
characterises number sequences as powerful and highly flexible mental
tools that are unique to humans and shows that it is language that
enables us to go beyond the perception of numerosity and to develop
such mental tools.

Introduction
1. Numbers and objects
2. What does it mean to be a number?
3. Can words be numbers?
4. The language legacy
5. Children?s route to number: from iconic representations to
   numerical thinking
6. The organisation of our cognitive number domain
7. Non-verbal number systems
8. Numbers in language: the grammatical integration of numerical tools
Appendix.

Lingfield(s):   Cognitive Science

Written In: English (Language Code: English)

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Date:  Tue, 25 Nov 2003 11:05:53 -0500 (EST)
From:  jreid at cup.org
Subject:  Lexical Categories: Baker

Title: Lexical Categories
Subtitle: Verbs, Nouns and Adjectives
Series Title: Cambridge Studies in Linguistics, 102

Publication Year: 2003
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
	   http://www.cup.org

Book URL:
http://us.cambridge.org/titles/catalogue.asp?isbn=0521806380

Availability: Available

Author: Mark C. Baker, Rutgers University

Hardback: ISBN: 0521806380, Pages: 370, Price:  U.S.: 70.00
Hardback: ISBN: 0521806380, Pages: 370, Price:  U.K.: 50.00

Abstract:

For decades, generative linguistics has said little about the
differences between verbs, nouns, and adjectives. This book seeks to
fill this theoretical gap by presenting simple and substantive
syntactic definitions of these three lexical categories. Mark C. Baker
claims that the various superficial differences found in particular
languages have a single underlying source which can be used to give
better characterizations of these 'parts of speech'. These new
definitions are supported by data from languages from every continent,
including English, Italian, Japanese, Edo, Mohawk, Chichewa, Quechua,
Choctaw, Nahuatl, Mapuche, and several Austronesian and Australian
languages. Baker argues for a formal, syntax-oriented, and universal
approach to the parts of speech, as opposed to the functionalist,
semantic, and relativist approaches that have dominated the few
previous works on this subject. This book will be welcomed by
researchers and students of linguistics and by related cognitive
scientists of language.

1. The problem of the lexical categories
2. Verbs as licensers of subjects
3. Nouns as bearers of a referential index
4. Adjectives as neither nouns nor verbs
5. Lexical categories and the nature of the grammar
Appendix: Adpositions as functional categories.

Lingfield(s):   Cognitive Science
		Syntax

Written In: English (Language Code: English)

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