Explaining natural morphosyntax. The continuing debate
Explaining natural morphosyntax. The continuing debate
About the Book
Morphosyntax, or grammar, is a major component of language. However, its functioning and learning have yet to be convincingly explained. The manuscript analyses various reasons for this state of affairs. Rejecting the nativist theories proposed previously as devoid of factual support, it proposes a new explanatory model. A key feature of the model is the integration of a formal system, dealing with the hierarchical aspects of language, and a semantic one, involved in the construction of syntactic patterns. It is suggested that the two systems are acquired implicitly and that implicit language learning mechanisms can be impaired in some language disorders.
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Table of Contents
CONTENTS
PREFACE
INTRODUCTION
1. THE HERITAGE OF STRUCTURAL AND GENERATIVE LINGUISTICS
1.1. Structural linguistics
1.1.1. Formal classes
1.1.2. Functional classes
1.2. Generative linguistics
1.2.1. Chomsky’s ideas
1.2.2. The independence of syntax
1.2.3. Evolution of generative linguistics
2. PSYCHOLINGUISTICS’ EARLY ORIENTATION
2.1. Experiments on transformational and generative grammar
2.2. The modularity hypothesis
3. GRAMMATICAL REPRESENTATION IN LANGUAGE USERS
3.1. Acceptability judgements
3.2. People’s grammatical knowledge
3.3. The innateness issue
3.4. The learnability question
3.5. Brain representations
4. SEQUENCES AND HIERARCHIES
5. SEMANTIC-RELATIONALTHEORY
5.1. Chafe’s and related models
5.2. Generality of semantic relations
6. TWO MORPHOSYNTACTIC SYSTEMS
6.1. Semantic-relational system
6.1.1 Semantic-syntactic patterning
6.1.2. Grammatical morphology as a self-editing process
6.2. Formal morphosyntactic system
7. IMPLICIT MORPHOSYNTACTIC LEARNING
7.1. Conceptualizing implicit learning
7.2. Implicit learning of natural morphosyntax
7.2.1. Syntactic learning
7.2.1.1. Semantic-relational framework
7.2.1.2. Formal syntactic learning
7.2.2. Learning grammatical morphology
7.3. Devoted memory systems
7.4. Developmental language disorders
7.4.1. Specific language impairment
7.4.2. Cognitive handicap
CONCLUSION
REFERENCES
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