Mind design and minimal syntax / / Wolfram Hinzen

• Autore: Hinzen Wolfram
• Pubblicazione: Oxford, : Oxford University Press, 2006
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (314 p.)
• Disciplina: 415.019
• Soggetto topico: Generative grammar; Grammar, Comparative and general - Syntax; Thought and thinking
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Nota di contenuto: Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Part I: Naturally Human -- 1 Introduction -- 1.1 Humans as natural objects -- 1.2 The study of human nature -- 1.3 Human design -- 1.4 The fate of human nature in the twentieth century -- 2 Against metaphysical naturalism -- 2.1 From methodological to metaphysical naturalism -- 2.2 Rationalist method from Galileo to Chomsky -- 2.3 Double standards -- 3 Biological internalism -- 3.1 Biology before unification -- 3.2 Mind as function: A critique -- 3.3 God or natural selection or ...? -- 3.4 Epilogue on explanation and necessity -- Part II: Deducing Variation -- 4 Prior to function -- 4.1 Language growth -- 4.2 Language and communication -- 4.3 Language as a social construct -- 5 Beyond the autonomy of syntax -- 5.1 What is syntax? -- 5.2 Explanation in linguistic theory -- 5.3 Human phrase structure -- 5.4 Transforming the phrase -- 5.5 Why is there movement? -- 5.6 The proper interpretation of LF/SEM -- Part III: Rational Mind -- 6 Good Design! -- 6.1 Phases and cascades: Beyond LF -- 6.2 Epistemology for mental organs -- Conclusions -- References -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y.
• Sommario/riassunto: This book introduces generative grammar and asks what it tells us about the human mind. Wolfram Hinzen unites modern generative linguistics with the philosophies of mind and language. He introduces Chomsky's program of a 'minimalist' syntax as a novel explanatory vision of the human mind. He argues that the design of the human mind is the product not of adaptive evolutionary history but of principles and processes that are ahistorical and internalist. Linguisticmeaning, he suggests, arises in the mind as a consequence of structures emerging on formal rather than functional grounds. From this he substantiates an unexpected and deeply unfashionable notion of human nature.
• Titolo autorizzato: Mind Design and Minimal Syntax
• ISBN: 1-280-90602-2; 9786610906024; 0-19-153441-2; 1-4294-9181-7
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910813093903321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II