Author: Ray Jackendoff
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: grammar, evolution, meaning, brain, language, foundations
Number of Pages: 504
Published: 2003-11-06
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0199264376
ISBN-13: 9780199264377

Already hailed as a masterpiece, Foundations of Language offers a brilliant overhaul of the last thirty-five years of research in generative linguistics and related fields. "Few books really deserve the cliche ’this should be read by every researcher in the field,’" writes Steven Pinker, author of The Language Instinct, "But Ray Jackendoff’s Foundations of Language does." Foundations of Language offers a radically new understanding of how language, the brain, and perception intermesh. The book renews the promise of early generative linguistics: that language can be a valuable

Author: Ray S. Jackendoff
Publisher: The MIT Press
Keywords: linguistics, studies, current, cognition, semantics
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 1985-09-10
List price: $30.00
ISBN-10: 0262600137
ISBN-13: 9780262600132

This book emphasizes the role of semantics as a bridge between the theory of language and the theories of other cognitive capacities such as visual perception and motor control. It develops the position that the study of semantics of natural language is the study of the structure of thought, and that grammatical structure offers a much more important source of evidence for the theory of cognition than is often supposed by linguists, philosophers, psychologists, or computer scientists. Semantics and Cognition is included in the series, Current Studies in Linguistics.

Author: Ray S. Jackendoff
Publisher: The MIT Press
Keywords: linguistics, studies, current, structures, semantic
Number of Pages: 336
Published: 1992-04-22
List price: $35.00
ISBN-10: 026260020X
ISBN-13: 9780262600200

Semantic Structures is a large-scale study of conceptual structure and its lexical and syntactic expression in English that builds on the theory of Conceptual Semantics described in Ray Jackendoff’s earlier books Semantics and Cognition and Consciousness and the Computational Mind. Jackendoff begins by summarizing the relevant arguments in his two previous books, setting out the basic parameters for the formalization of meaning, and comparing his mentalistic approach with Fodor’s Language of Thought hypothesis. He then takes up the Problem of Meaning, extending the range of sema

Author: Ray Jackendoff
Publisher: The MIT Press
Keywords: inquiry, monographs, linguistic, faculty, language, architecture
Number of Pages: 278
Published: 1996-12-20
List price: $27.00
ISBN-10: 0262600250
ISBN-13: 9780262600255

Over the past twenty-five years, Ray Jackendoff has investigated many complex issues in syntax, semantics, and the relation of language to other cognitive domains. He steps back in this new book to survey the broader theoretical landscape in linguistics, in an attempt to identify some of the sources of the widely perceived malaise with respect to much current theorizing. Starting from the "Minimalist" necessity for interfaces of the grammar with sound, meaning, and the lexicon, Jackendoff examines many standard assumptions of generative grammar that in retrospect may be seen as the product

Author: Ray Jackendoff
Publisher: Basic Books
Keywords: nature, human, language, mind, patterns
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 1995-01-04
List price: $20.00
ISBN-10: 0465054625
ISBN-13: 9780465054626

What is it about the human mind that accounts for the fact that we can speak and understand a language? Why can’t other creatures do the same? And what does this tell us about the rest of human abilities? Recent dramatic discoveries in linguistics and psychology provide intriguing answers to these age-old mysteries. In this fascinating book, Ray Jackendoff emphasizes the grammatical commonalities across languages, both spoken and signed, and discusses the implications for our understanding of language acquisition and loss.

Authors:Peter W. Culicover, Ray Jackendoff,
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: syntax, simpler
Number of Pages: 608
Published: 2005-09-15
List price: $199.00
ISBN-10: 0199271089
ISBN-13: 9780199271085

This groundbreaking book offers a new and compelling perspective on the structure of human language. The fundamental issue that it addresses is the proper balance between syntax and semantics, between structure and derivation, and between rule systems and lexicon. It argues that the balance struck by mainstream generative grammar is wrong. It puts forward a new basis for syntactic theory, drawing on a wide range of frameworks, and charts new directions for research. Simpler Syntax is addressed to linguists of all persuasions. It will also be of central interest to those concerned with language

Authors:Peter W. Culicover, Ray Jackendoff,
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: syntax, simpler
Number of Pages: 608
Published: 2005-09-15
List price: $49.95
ISBN-10: 0199271097
ISBN-13: 9780199271092

This groundbreaking book offers a new and compelling perspective on the structure of human language. The fundamental issue it addresses is the proper balance between syntax and semantics, between structure and derivation, and between rule systems and lexicon. It argues that the balance struck by mainstream generative grammar is wrong. It puts forward a new basis for syntactic theory, drawing on a wide range of frameworks, and charts new directions for research. In the past four decades, theories of syntactic structure have become more abstract, and syntactic derivations have become ever more