Eran Asoulin
Biographic Data
| ID | 2790212 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Eran Asoulin |
| GIVEN NAMES | Eran |
| FAMILY NAME | Asoulin |
| SIGNATURE | ASOULIN E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Migration Institute of Australia |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3594-2156 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 2 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 2 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Why should syntactic islands exist
Sentences that are ungrammatical and yet intelligible are instances of what I call perfectly thinkable thoughts. I argue that the existence of perfectly thinkable thoughts is revealing in regard to the question of why syntactic islands should exist. If language is an instrument of thought as understood in the biolinguistics tradition, then a uniquely human subset of thoughts is generated in narrow syntax, which suggests that island constraints ca…
Phrase structure grammars as indicative of uniquely human thoughts
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Phrase structure grammars as indicative of uniquely human thoughts
Why should syntactic islands exist
Sentences that are ungrammatical and yet intelligible are instances of what I call perfectly thinkable thoughts. I argue that the existence of perfectly thinkable thoughts is revealing in regard to the question of why syntactic islands should exist. If language is an instrument of thought as understood in the biolinguistics tradition, then a uniquely human subset of thoughts is generated in narrow syntax, which suggests that island constraints ca…
Computer Science (2 works) · Human language (2 works) · Linguistics (2 works) · Natural Language Processing Techniques (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Psychology (2 works) · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation (2 works) · Artificial Intelligence (1 work) · Cognition (1 work) · Cognitive science (1 work)