02402cam a2200277 a 4500 20230110150150.0 120327s2010 maumg b a001 0 eng 2009-031988 GBB021673 bnb 026201405X (hardcover : alk. paper) 9780262014052 (hardcover : alk. paper) P132 .M85 2010 401 22 Mukherji, Nirmalangshu. The primacy of grammar / Nirmalangshu Mukherji. Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2010. xix, 278 p. : ill., music ; 24 cm. "A Bradford book." Includes bibliographical references and index. The loneliness of biolinguistics. Some classical issues -- Limits of cognitive inquiry -- Overview of biolinguistics -- Language and biology -- A body of doctrines -- A mind-internal system -- Linguistic theory I. Russell's scope problem -- Principles and parameters -- Government-binding theory -- D-structure -- C-selection -- X-bar theory -- Theta theory -- S-structure -- Case theory -- Wh-movement -- Binding theory -- LF -- Grammar and scope problem -- Grammar and logic. Chinese room -- PFR and SFR -- LF and logical form -- Truth and meaning -- Limits of formal semantics -- External significance -- Syntax of thought? -- Russell's equivalence -- Summing up -- Words and concepts. "Incompleteness" of grammar -- Lexical data -- Uncertain intuitions -- Nature of lexical inquiry -- Lexical decomposition -- Initial objections -- Nouns -- Verbs -- Crossroads -- Linguistic theory II. Minimalist program -- Conceptual necessity -- Feature checking -- (New) merge -- Merge and syntax -- Merge and semantics -- Economy principles -- Chl and linguistic specificity -- Principles -- Displacement -- Language and music. Musilanguage hypothesis -- Evidence -- What the evidence means -- Strong musilanguage hypothesis -- Music and meaning -- Themes from Wittgenstein -- Music and emotions -- Internal significance -- Recursion in music -- A joint of nature. Merge and music -- Faculty of music -- "Laws of nature" -- Forms of explanation -- Scope of computationalism. Biolinguistics. Language and languages Philosophy. lcc 59736 59736 0 0 lcc 0 0 AJMM AJM AJM 2023-01-10 0 0285002 2023-01-10 00:00:00 1 2023-01-10 BK VIRTUAITEM