Meaning and the Lexicon
The Parallel Architecture 1975-2010
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 25 February 2010
- ISBN 9780199568871
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages504 pages
- Size 253x179x33 mm
- Weight 1015 g
- Language English
- Illustrations Figures 0
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Short description:
This book traces Ray Jackendoff's Parallel Architecture account of mind and language from origins to present. The discussion draws on linguistics, cognitive science, and philosophy, and combines depth of thought with clarity and wit. It will interest everyone concerned to know how language operates in the mind, brain, and human communication.
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Meaning and the Lexicon brings together 35 years of pathbreaking work on language by Ray Jackendoff. It traces the development of his Parallel Architecture, in which phonology, syntax, and semantics are independent generative components, and in which knowledge of language consists of a repertoire of stored structures. Some of these structures, such as words and morphemes, are idiosyncratic mappings between phonology, syntax, and meaning; some, such as idioms, attach meaning to larger syntactic structures; other structures are purely syntactic or morphosyntactic; and yet others are pieces of meaning with no syntactic or phonological form. The Parallel Architecture also seeks to explain and understand how language is integrated with human cognition, particularly with vision.
Professor Jackendoff examines inherently meaningful syntactic constructions, incorporating insights from Construction Grammar; and he looks at how aspects of meaning can be unexpressed but nevertheless understood, integrating approaches from Generative Lexicon theory. A recurring focus is the balance in grammar between idiosyncrasy, regularity, and semiregularity. The chapters cover a wide range of phenomena, from well-studied domains such as the mass-count distinction, event structure, resultatives, and noun-noun compounds, to offbeat aspects of English grammar such as the time-away construction (We're twistin' the night away), contrastive focus reduplication (Do you LIKE-him-like him?) and the noun-preposition-noun construction (week after week).
Ray Jackendoff draws on work in a wide range of fields, including linguistics, cognitive science, and philosophy. His writing combines depth of thought with clarity and wit. Meaning and the Lexicon will be read and enjoyed by linguists of all theoretical persuasions, and will be of great interest to cognitive scientists, philosophers, and anyone interested in how language operates in the mind, brain, and human communication.
the intellectual journey of one of the most original and creative thinkers in modern linguistics.
Table of Contents:
prologue: The Parallel Architecture and its Components
Morphological and Semantic Regularities in the Lexicon
On Beyond Zebra: The Relation of Linguistics and Visual Information
The Architecture of the Linguistic-Spatial Interface
Parts and Boundaries
The Proper Treatment of Measuring Out, Telicity, and Perhaps Even Quantification in English
English Particle Constructions, the Lexicon, and the Autonomy of Syntax
Twistin' the Night Away
The English Resultative as a Family of Constructions
On The phrase The Phrase 'the phrase'
Contrastive Focus Reduplication in English (the salad-salad paper)
Construction After Construction and its Theoretical Challenges
The Ecology of English Noun-Noun Compounds
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