31.1127, Books: The Minimalist Program: Al-Mutairi

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Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2020 22:53:24
From: Katie Laker [klaker at cambridge.org]
Subject: The Minimalist Program: Al-Mutairi

 


Title: The Minimalist Program 
Subtitle: The Nature and Plausibility of Chomsky's Biolinguistics 
Series Title: Cambridge Studies in Linguistics 143  

Publication Year: 2019 
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
	   http://cambridge.org
	

Book URL: https://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/languages-linguistics/grammar-and-syntax/minimalist-program-nature-and-plausibility-chomskys-biolinguistics?format=PB 


Author: Fahad Rashed Al-Mutairi

Paperback: ISBN:  9781108810425 Pages:  Price: U.S. $ 29.99
Paperback: ISBN:  9781108810425 Pages:  Price: U.K. £ 22.99
Paperback: ISBN:  9781108810425 Pages:  Price: Europe EURO 26.83


Abstract:

The development of the Minimalist Program (MP), Noam Chomsky's most recent
generative model of linguistics, has been highly influential over the last
twenty years. It has had significant implications not only for the conduct of
linguistic analysis itself, but also for our understanding of the status of
linguistics as a science. The reflections and analyses in this book contain
insights into the strengths and the weaknesses of the MP. These include: a
clarification of the content of the Strong Minimalist Thesis (SMT); a
synthesis of Chomsky's linguistic and interdisciplinary discourses; and an
analysis of the notion of optimal computation from conceptual, empirical and
philosophical perspectives. This book will encourage graduate students and
researchers in linguistics to reflect on the foundations of their discipline,
and the interdisciplinary nature of the topics explored will appeal to those
studying biolinguistics, neurolinguistics, the philosophy of language and
other related disciplines.

1. Introduction; 2. The minimalist program; 3. The strong minimalist thesis
(SMT); 4. The SMT in an evolutionary context; 5. The SMT as an explanatory
thesis; 6. Optimal computation and multiple realisation; 7. Conclusion.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Discipline of Linguistics
                     Linguistic Theories


Written In: English  (eng)

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