24.277, Books: The Equilibrium of Human Syntax: Moro

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Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2013 10:29:10
From: Sara Batkie [Sara.Batkie at taylorandfrancis.com]
Subject: The Equilibrium of Human Syntax: Moro

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Title: The Equilibrium of Human Syntax 
Subtitle: Symmetries of the Brain 
Series Title: Routledge Leading Linguists  

Publication Year: 2012 
Publisher: Routledge (Taylor and Francis)
	   http://www.routledge.com/

Book URL: http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415639675/ 

Author: Andrea Moro

Hardback: ISBN:  9780415639675 Pages: 480 Price: U.K. £ 95
Hardback: ISBN:  9780415639675 Pages: 480 Price: U.S. $ 150

Abstract:

This book assembles a collection of papers in two different domains: formal
syntax and neurolinguistics. Here Moro provides evidence that the two fields
are becoming more and more interconnected and that the new fascinating
empirical questions and results in the latter field cannot be obtained without
the theoretical base provided by the former.

The book is organized in two parts: Part 1 focuses on theoretical and
empirical issues in a comparative perspective (including the nature of
syntactic movement, the theory of locality and a far reaching and influential
theory of copular sentences). Part 2 provides the original sources of some
innovative and pioneering experiments based on neuroimaging techniques
(focusing on the biological nature of recursion and the interpretation of
negative sentences).

Moro concludes with an assessment of the impact of these perspectives on the
theory of the evolution of language. The leading and pervasive idea unifying
all the arguments developed here is the role of symmetry (breaking) in syntax
and in the relationship between language and the human brain.

Linguistic Field(s): Cognitive Science
                     Syntax

Written In: English  (eng)

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MAJOR SUPPORTERS

	Brill          
		http://www.brill.nl	

	Cambridge Scholars Publishing          
		http://www.c-s-p.org	

	Cambridge University Press          
		http://us.cambridge.org	

	Cascadilla Press          
		http://www.cascadilla.com/	

	Bloomsbury Publishing
	(formerly The Continuum International Publishing Group)
		http://www.continuumbooks.com	

	De Gruyter Mouton          
		http://www.degruyter.com/mouton	

	Edinburgh University Press          
		http://www.eup.ed.ac.uk/	

	Elsevier Ltd          
		http://www.elsevier.com/linguistics	

	Emerald Group Publishing Limited          
		http://www.emeraldinsight.com/	

	Equinox Publishing Ltd          
		http://www.equinoxpub.com/	

	European Language Resources Association - ELRA          
		http://www.elra.info.	

	Georgetown University Press          
		http://www.press.georgetown.edu	

	Hodder Education          
		http://www.hoddereducation.co.uk	

	John Benjamins          
		http://www.benjamins.com/	

	Lincom GmbH          
		http://www.lincom.eu	

	MIT Press          
		http://mitpress.mit.edu/	

	Morgan & Claypool Publishers          

	Multilingual Matters          
		http://www.multilingual-matters.com/	

	Narr Francke Attempto Verlag GmbH + Co. KG          
		http://www.narr.de/	

	Oxford University Press          
		http://www.oup.com/us	

	Palgrave Macmillan          
		http://www.palgrave.com	

	Peter Lang AG          
		http://www.peterlang.com	

	Rodopi          
		http://www.rodopi.nl/	

	Routledge (Taylor and Francis)          
		http://www.routledge.com/	

	Springer          
		http://www.springer.com	

	University of Toronto Press          
		http://www.utpjournals.com/	

	Wiley-Blackwell          
		http://www.wiley.com	

OTHER SUPPORTING PUBLISHERS	

	Association of Editors of the Journal of Portuguese Linguistics
		http://www.fl.ul.pt/revistas/JPL/JPLweb.htm 

	International Pragmatics Assoc.
		http://www.ipra.be 

	Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics / Landelijke - LOT
		http://www.lotpublications.nl/ 

	SIL International
		http://www.ethnologue.com/bookstore.asp 

	University of Nebraska Press
		http://www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/catalog/CategoryInfo.aspx?cid=152

	Utrecht institute of Linguistics
		http://www-uilots.let.uu.nl/ 

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