Biological foundations and origin of syntax / / edited by Derek Bickerton and Eörs Szathmáry

• Pubblicazione: Cambridge, Mass., : MIT Press, ©2009
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (491 p.)
• Disciplina: 612.8/2336
• Soggetto topico: Grammar, Comparative and general - Syntax; Biolinguistics
• Soggetto non controllato: LINGUISTICS & LANGUAGE/General
• Altri autori: BickertonDerek SzathmáryEörs
• Note generali: Forum held July 13-18, 2008, in Frankfurt, Germany.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; The Ernst Strüngmann Forum; List of Contributors; Preface; Background; 1 Syntax for Non-syntacticians; 2 The Biological Background of Syntax Evolution; 3 Functional Neuroimaging and the Logic of Brain Operations; Syntactics; 4 Some Elements of Syntactic Computations; 5 The Adaptive Approach to Grammar; 6 Fundamental Syntactic Phenomena and Their Putative Relation to the Brain; 7 What Kinds of Syntactic Phenomena Must Biologists, Neurobiologists, and Computer Scientists Try to Explain and Replicate?; Evolution; 8 Possible Precursors of Syntactic Components in Other Species ; 9 What Can Developmental Language Impairment Tell Us about the Genetic Bases of Syntax?10 What Are the Possible Biological and Genetic Foundations for Syntactic Phenomena?; Brain; 11 Brain Circuits of Syntax; 12 Neural Organization for Syntactic Processing as Determined by Effects of Lesions; 13 Reflections on the Neurobiology of Syntax; 14 What Are the Brain Mechanisms Underlying Syntactic Operations?; Modeling; 15 Syntax as an Adaptation to the Learner; 16 Cognition and Social Dynamics Play a Major Role in the Formation of Grammar ; 17 What Can Formal or Computational Models Tell Us about How (Much) Language Shaped the Brain?18 What Can Mathematical, Computational, and Robotic Models Tell Us about the Origins of Syntax?; Glossary; Bibliography; Subject Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Interdisciplinary perspectives on the evolutionary & biological roots of syntax, describing current research on syntax in fields ranging from linguistics to neurology.
• Titolo autorizzato: Biological foundations and origin of syntax
• ISBN: 0-262-29379-X; 1-282-69428-6; 9786612694288; 0-262-25858-7
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910778558803321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Strüngmann Forum reports.