02616cam a2200337 a 4500 15849578 BD-DhUL 20161205111632.0 090804s2010 mauag b 001 0 eng 2009031988 GBB021673 bnb 015483359 Uk 9780262014052 (hardcover : alk. paper) 026201405X (hardcover : alk. paper) (OCoLC)ocn430678951 DLC DLC UKM ERASA C#P YDXCP BWX CDX GEBAY GEBAY BD-DhUL P132 .M85 2010 401 22 Mukherji, Nirmalangshu. The primacy of grammar / Nirmalangshu Mukherji. Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2010. xix, 278 p. : ill., music ; 24 cm. "A Bradford book." Includes bibliographical references and index. The loneliness of biolinguistics. Some classical issues -- Limits of cognitive inquiry -- Overview of biolinguistics -- Language and biology -- A body of doctrines -- A mind-internal system -- Linguistic theory I. Russell's scope problem -- Principles and parameters -- Government-binding theory -- D-structure -- C-selection -- X-bar theory -- Theta theory -- S-structure -- Case theory -- Wh-movement -- Binding theory -- LF -- Grammar and scope problem -- Grammar and logic. Chinese room -- PFR and SFR -- LF and logical form -- Truth and meaning -- Limits of formal semantics -- External significance -- Syntax of thought? -- Russell's equivalence -- Summing up -- Words and concepts. "Incompleteness" of grammar -- Lexical data -- Uncertain intuitions -- Nature of lexical inquiry -- Lexical decomposition -- Initial objections -- Nouns -- Verbs -- Crossroads -- Linguistic theory II. Minimalist program -- Conceptual necessity -- Feature checking -- (New) merge -- Merge and syntax -- Merge and semantics -- Economy principles -- Chl and linguistic specificity -- Principles -- Displacement -- Language and music. Musilanguage hypothesis -- Evidence -- What the evidence means -- Strong musilanguage hypothesis -- Music and meaning -- Themes from Wittgenstein -- Music and emotions -- Internal significance -- Recursion in music -- A joint of nature. Merge and music -- Faculty of music -- "Laws of nature" -- Forms of explanation -- Scope of computationalism. Biolinguistics. Language and languages Philosophy. 7 cbc orignew 1 ecip 20 y-gencatlg ddc BK rc05 2009-08-04 rc05 2009-08-04 (telework) xe04 2010-06-22 2 copies rec'd., to CIP ver. 131101 131101 0 0 ddc 0 401_000000000000000 0 NFIC 246669 DUL DUL GEN 2016-12-05 401 477561 2016-12-05 2016-12-05 BK