Mind Design and Minimal Syntax
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20003738 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Wolfram Hinzen (0000-0002-6159-4215, University of Amsterdam, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2006 |
| Pages | 297 |
| Publication date | 2006-02-23 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | BOOK |
| Venue | MIND DESIGN AND MINIMAL SYNTAX. (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Oxford University PressOxford (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199289257.001.0001 |
| OpenAlex | W202086297 |
| Open Library | OL22723629M |
| ISBN | 9780199289257 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 35 |
| References cited | 167 |
This book introduces generative grammar as an area of study, asking what it tells us about the human mind. It lays the foundation for the unification of modern generative linguistics with the philosophies of mind and language. It introduces Chomsky's program of a ‘minimalist’ syntax as a novel explanatory vision of the human mind. It explains how the Minimalist Program originated from work in cognitive science, biology, linguistics, and philosophy, and examines its implications for work in these fields. It also considers the way the human mind is designed when seen as an arrangement of structural patterns in nature, and argues that its design is the product not so much of adaptive evolutionary history as of principles and processes that are historical and internalist in character. The book suggests that linguistic meaning arises in the mind as a consequence of structures emerging on formal rather than functional grounds. From this, the book substantiates an unexpected and deeply unfashionable notion of human nature. It also provides an insight into the nature and aims of Chomsky's Minimalist Program
Cognitive science · Epistemology · Generative grammar · Grammar · Linguistics · Minimalist program · Programming language · Psychological nativism · Syntax · Transformational grammar · Unification · Universal Grammar · Computer Science · Historical Linguistics and Language Studies · History · Language and cultural evolution · Philosophy · Psychology · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation · Comparative and general Grammar · Psycholinguistics · Thought and thinking
Understanding Recursion and Looking for Self-Embedding in Pirahã
Explaining intersubjectivity. A comment on Arie Verhagen, Constructions of Intersubjectivity
Grammaticality as evidence and as prediction in a Galilean linguistics
Chomsky’s derivation-by-phase theory as applied to judgments of the grammaticality of Japanese double accusative sentences
Three conceptions of nativism and the faculty of language
The philosophical significance of Universal Grammar
Deriving the functional hierarchy
What kind of concepts need language
On the particulars of Universal Grammar
Reference Across Pathologies
A critique of Phase Extension, with a comparison to Phase Sliding
Bare phrase structure, label-less trees, and specifier-less syntax. Is Minimalism becoming a dependency grammar
The emergence of middle voice structures with and without agents
On Phrase Structure building and labeling algorithms
T-to-C movement
Merging features
From Greek to Germanic
Resurrections and insurrections in the neurobiology of language
A comparative investigation of compositional syntax and semantics in Dall·E and young children
With Language in Mind
Language design and communicative competence
On the psychologism of neurophenomenology
Why should syntactic islands exist
What would it mean for natural language to be the language of thought
What are Languages? A Biolinguistic Perspective
Internalism about truth
The evolution of morphology
Spell‐Out and the Minimalist Program
Computations and interfaces
Culturally embedded schemata for false belief reasoning
The limits of conceivability
Natural language syntax complies with the free-energy principle
The Cartographic Enterprise in Syntax
On the Absence of X-within-X Recursion in Human Grammar
Commitment Phrase
Functionalism and Formalism in Linguistics
Derivation and Explanation in the Minimalist Program
Life's Solution
Moral belief
On the nature of grammatical relations
Natural Selection
Science as Practice and Culture
Mindblindness
The Ecology of Language Evolution
How Children Learn the Meanings of Words
Knowledge of Meaning
Adverbs and Functional Heads
The Handbook of Contemporary Syntactic Theory
On growth and form
Language Death
On Nature and Language
Structuring Sense Volume 2
Beyond Modularity
The Origins of Order
Complexity and the Function of Mind in Nature
How Monkeys See the World
Prolegomenon to a Theory of Argument Structure
A General Model for the Origin of Allometric Scaling Laws in Biology
The spandrels of San Marco and the Panglossian paradigm
Connectionism and cognitive architecture
The Faculty of Language
The unreasonable effectiveness of mathematics in the natural sciences. Richard courant lecture in mathematical sciences delivered at New York University, May 11, 1959
The Structure and Content of Truth
Eliminative Materialism and the Propositional Attitudes
The past and future of the past tense
ToMM, ToBY, and Agency
Hard Words
Universal Grammar, statistics or both?
The chemical basis of morphogenesis
An Essay concerning Human Understanding
The Psychological Foundations of Culture
Exaptation—a Missing Term in the Science of Form
Thematic Roles and Syntactic Structure
The Fine Structure of the Left Periphery
On The Language Instinct
I.—computing Machinery and Intelligence
Mind, Language and Reality
The Renaissance and Seventeenth-century Rationalism
The Handbook of Phonological Theory
Philosophical Papers Volume I
Physicalism and its Discontents
Realistic Rationalism
The goals of linguistic theory
The problem of philosophy
Generative Linguistics
Empirical re-assessment of stimulus poverty arguments
On the poverty of the challenge
Empirical assessment of stimulus poverty arguments
On the Impossibility of Acquiring More Powerful Structures
The Origins of Complex Language
Biolinguistics
Variation and Universals in Biolinguistics
Truth and Interpretation
Rethinking Innateness
Knowledge and Learning in Natural Language
Evolution, selection and cognition
The faculty of language
Language and Species
The Evolution of Communication
Core knowledge
Grammatical Form and Logical Form
Explaining Complex Adaptations
The Blackwell companion to the enlightenment
Government and Binding Theory and the Minimalist Program
Language and Experience
Semantics in Generative Grammar
OnTuring's Turing Test and why thematter matters
The Trials of Life
A Matter of Individuality
Two Concepts of Constraint
Descartes' Conversation with Burman
Bootstrapping & the origin of concepts
The Achilles of Rationalist Arguments
The Rediscovery of the Mind
Mapping the Mind
Other Minds
Topic and focus within D
The Poverty of the Stimulus Argument
New Horizons in the Study of Language and Mind
Three Factors in Language Design
Developmental Dynamics
Successive Cyclicity under (Anti-)Local Considerations
Cyclic Computation, A Computationally Efficient Minimalist Syntax
Symmetry in Structure Building
Rethinking the neurological basis of language
Some thoughts about the brain/mind/language interface
Phonology in Generative Grammar
Generalized verb movement. Aspects of verb syntax
Beyond the Input Given
Lexical Categories
| Unique citing works | 35 |
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| Citations per year | 1,75 |
| Citation span | 2006 - 2026 (21) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 20 |