34.233, Books: The Structural Design of Language: Stroik, Putnam

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Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2023 17:12:56
From: Ellena Moriarty [ellena.moriarty at cambridge.org]
Subject: The Structural Design of Language: Stroik, Putnam

 


Title: The Structural Design of Language 
Publication Year: 2022 
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
	   http://www.cambridge.org/linguistics
	

Book URL: https://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/languages-linguistics/grammar-and-syntax/structural-design-language?format=PB 


Author: Thomas S. Stroik
Author: Michael T. Putnam

Paperback: ISBN:  9781009342469 Pages:  Price: U.S. $ 32.99
Paperback: ISBN:  9781009342469 Pages:  Price: U.K. £ 23.99
Paperback: ISBN:  9781009342469 Pages:  Price: Europe EURO 28.00


Abstract:

Editor’s Note: This is a new edition of a previously announced title.
Although there have been numerous investigations of biolinguistics within the
Minimalist Program over the last ten years, many of which appeal to the
importance of Turing’s Thesis (that the structural design of systems must obey
physical and mathematical laws), these studies have by and large ignored the
question of the structural design of language. They have paid significant
attention to identifying the components of language – settling on a lexicon, a
computational system, a sensorimotor performance system, and a
conceptual-intentional performance system; however, they have not examined how
these components must be inter-structured to meet thresholds of simplicity,
generality, naturalness, and beauty, as well as of biological and conceptual
necessity.  In this book, Stroik and Putnam take on Turing’s challenge.  They
argue that the narrow syntax – the lexicon, the Numeration, and the
computational system – must reside, for reasons of conceptual necessity,
within the performance systems.  As simple as this novel design is, it
provides, as Stroik and Putnam demonstrate, radical new insights into what the
human language faculty is, how language emerged in the species, and how
language is acquired by children.
 



1. The biolinguistic turn; 2. The structure of the lexicon; 3. Constructing
the numeration; 4. Copy and the computational system; 5. Some structural
consequences for derivations; 6. Observations on performance system
interpretations; 7. Conclusions and challenges.
 


Linguistic Field(s): Language Acquisition
                     Syntax


Written In: English  (eng)

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