Recursion and human language /

"The present volume is an edited collection of original contributions which all deal with the issue of recursion in human language(s). All contributions originate as papers that were presented at a conference on the topic of recursion in human language organized by Dan Everett in March 22, 2007...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Hulst, Harry van der
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: [Berlin] ; [New York] : De Gruyter Mouton, ©2010.
Colección:Studies in generative grammar ; 104.
Temas:
Grammar, Comparative and general > Syntax > Congresses.
Grammar, Comparative and general > Phonology > Congresses.
Syntaxe > Congrès.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Grammar & Punctuation.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Linguistics > Syntax.
Grammar, Comparative and general > Phonology.
Grammar, Comparative and general > Syntax.
Rekurrenz
Generative Syntax
Rekursivität
Recursiviteit (taalkunde)
Generative Syntax.
Normal <Ill., 2007>
Conference papers and proceedings.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover
  • Title Page
  • Copyright Page
  • Table of Contents
  • List of authors
  • Preliminaries
  • Re Recursion
  • Part I
  • Discussing the need for recursion on empirical grounds
  • 1. Pirah227; 8211; in need of recursive syntax?
  • 2. The fluidity of recursion and its implications
  • 3. Syntactic recursion and iteration
  • 4. Recursion in conversation: What speakers of Finnish and Japanese know how to do
  • 5. What do you think is the proper place of recursion? Conceptual and empirical issues
  • Part II
  • Formal Issues
  • 6. Recursion and the infinitude claim
  • 7. Just how big are natural languages?
  • 8. Recursion, infinity, and modeling
  • 9. How recursive is language? A Bayesian exploration
  • Part III
  • Evolutionary Perspectives
  • 10. Was recursion the key step in the evolution of the human language faculty?
  • 11. When clauses refuse to be recursive: An evolutionary perspective
  • 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
  • 13. Over the top: Recursion as a functional option
  • Part IV
  • Recursion and the Lexicon
  • 14. Lack of recursion in the lexicon: The two-argument restriction
  • 15. Kinds of recursion in Adyghe morphology
  • 16. Recursion and the Lexicon
  • Part V
  • Recursion outside Syntax
  • 17. A note on recursion in phonology
  • 18. Cognitive grouping and recursion in prosody
  • 19. Becoming recursive: Toward a computational neuroscience account of recursion in language and thought
  • 20. Recursion in severe agrammatism
  • Subject index
  • Language Index.

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