LINGUIST List 17.2412

Mon Aug 28 2006

Books: Cognitive Science/Semantics/Syntax: Boeckx

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Directory         1.    Jenny Breaker, Linguistic Minimalism: Origins, Concepts, Methods, and Aims: Boeckx
Message 1: Linguistic Minimalism: Origins, Concepts, Methods, and Aims: Boeckx
Date: 16-Aug-2006
From: Jenny Breaker <jenny.breakeroup.com>
Subject: Linguistic Minimalism: Origins, Concepts, Methods, and Aims: Boeckx


Title: Linguistic Minimalism: Origins, Concepts, Methods, and Aims Published: 2006 Publisher: Oxford University Press
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Book URL: http://www.oup.com/uk/catalogue/?ci=9780199297580

Author: Cedric Boeckx, Harvard University Hardback: ISBN: 0199297576 Pages: 256 Price: U.K. £ 50.00
Paperback: ISBN: 0199297584 Pages: 256 Price: U.K. £ 17.99
Abstract:

This is a self-contained introduction to the Minimalist Program for linguistictheory, the boldest and most radical version of Noam Chomsky's naturalisticapproach to language. Cedric Boeckx examines its foundations, explains itsunderlying philosophy, exemplifies its methods, and considers thesignificance of its empirical results.

He explores the roots and antecedents of the Program and shows how itsmethodologies parallel those of sciences such as physics and biology. Hedisentangles and clarifies current debates and issues around the nature ofminimalist research in linguistics and shows how the aims and ambitions ofthe Minimalist Program lie at the centre of the enterprise to understand howthe human language faculty operates in the mind and is manifested in theworld's languages. The book contains a glossary of key concepts, each oneillustrated with relevant examples drawn from a variety of languages.

Linguistic Field(s): Cognitive Science                             Semantics                             Syntax
Written In: English (eng )

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