Reflections on Syntax

Lectures in General Linguistics, Syntax, and Child Language Acquisition

By:

Joseph Galasso

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Hardback

Series:

Berkeley Insights in Linguistics and Semiotics

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The lectures in this book are immensely Chomskyan in spirit, recursive-syntactic in nature, and tethered to a framework which takes as the null hypothesis the notion that language is an innate, pre-determined biological system—a system which by definition is multi-complex, human-specific, and analogous to a philosophy highly commensurate of Descartes’ great proverbial adage which announces the calling for a ‘ghost-in-the-machine’. The book begins with a gradual assessment of the kinds of complex constructs students of syntax need to work-up. Leading to the classic ‘Four-Sentences’—each of which bears as a kind of post-mark its own decade of Chomskyan analysis—we trace the origins of generative grammar from the fields of child language acquisition (of the 1960s), to psycholinguistics (of the 1970s), to where we stand today within the Minimalist Program. Various spin-off proposals have been spawned by envisioned analyses which treat syntactic movement as the quintessential human processing—a processing which would give rise to human language. Such spin-offs include ‘Proto-language’ and a new treatment of the so-called morpho-syntactic ‘Dual Mechanism Model’.

Author Biography:

Joseph Galasso (Ph.D., University of Essex) is on the Linguistics Faculty at California State University, Northridge and also lectures as adjunct at California State University, Long Beach. His main research and publications involve issues surrounding early child syntactic development.

Release date Australia

July 30th, 2021

Author

Joseph Galasso

Audience

Professional & Vocational

Contributor

Series edited by Irmengard Rauch

Edition

New edition

Illustrations

18 Illustrations, unspecified

Pages

278

Series

Berkeley Insights in Linguistics and Semiotics

ISBN-13

9781433184321

Product ID

34751780

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