Hulst Recursion and Human Language

1. Auflage 2010
ISBN: 978-3-11-021925-8
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, Band 104, 469 Seiten, Gewicht: 10 g

Reihe: Studies in Generative Grammar [SGG]ISSN

Zielgruppe

Researchers, Scholars and Those with General Interest in Linguistics and Cognitive Science

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hulst, Harry van der

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Phonetik, Phonologie, Prosodie
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Grammatik, Syntax, Morphologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;Table of Contents;5
2;List of authors;7
3;Preliminaries;13
3.1;Re Recursion;15
4;Part I. Discussing the need for recursion on empirical grounds;55
4.1;1. Pirahã – in need of recursive syntax?;57
4.2;2. The fluidity of recursion and its implications;71
4.3;3. Syntactic recursion and iteration;97
4.4;4. Recursion in conversation: What speakers of Finnish and Japanese know how to do;123
4.5;5. What do you think is the proper place of recursion? Conceptual and empirical issues;147
5;Part II. Formal Issues;165
5.1;6. Recursion and the infinitude claim;167
5.2;7. Just how big are natural languages?;193
5.3;8. Recursion, infinity, and modeling;201
5.4;9. How recursive is language? A Bayesian exploration;213
6;Part III. Evolutionary Perspectives;231
6.1;10. Was recursion the key step in the evolution of the human language faculty?;233
6.2;11. When clauses refuse to be recursive: An evolutionary perspective;247
6.3;12. The use of formal language theory in studies of artificial language learning: A proposal for distinguishing the differences between human and nonhuman animal learners;267
6.4;13. Over the top: Recursion as a functional option;287
7;Part IV. Recursion and the Lexicon;299
7.1;14. Lack of recursion in the lexicon: The two-argument restriction;301
7.2;15. Kinds of recursion in Adyghe morphology;317
7.3;16. Recursion and the Lexicon;339
8;Part V. Recursion outside Syntax;353
8.1;17. A note on recursion in phonology;355
8.2;18. Cognitive grouping and recursion in prosody;397
8.3;19. Becoming recursive: Toward a computational neuroscience account of recursion in language and thought;425
8.4;20. Recursion in severe agrammatism;447
9;Subject index;461
10;Language index;471

Über Autor(innen)

Harry van der Hulst, University of Connecticut, USA.