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The Structural Design of Language Thomas S. Stroik (University of Missouri, Kansas City)

The Structural Design of Language By Thomas S. Stroik (University of Missouri, Kansas City)

The Structural Design of Language by Thomas S. Stroik (University of Missouri, Kansas City)


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One of the most important principles which underlies biolinguistics is that Turing's thesis must be satisfied: the structural design of biological systems obey physical and mathematical laws. This book proposes a structural design for human language which does exactly that, giving central importance to minimalist syntax.

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The Structural Design of Language by Thomas S. Stroik (University of Missouri, Kansas City)

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.

About Thomas S. Stroik (University of Missouri, Kansas City)

Thomas S. Stroik is Professor of English Linguistics at the University of Missouri, Kansas City. His previous publications include Locality in Minimalist Syntax (2009). Michael T. Putnam is Assistant Professor of German and Linguistics at Pennsylvania State University. He is the author of Scrambling and the Survive Principle (2007) and has edited three books including Exploring Crash-Proof Grammars (2010).

Table of Contents

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.

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NPB9781107034839
9781107034839
1107034833
The Structural Design of Language by Thomas S. Stroik (University of Missouri, Kansas City)
New
Hardback
Cambridge University Press
2013-04-25
210
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