MARC Record from Library of Congress

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001 2009031988
003 DLC
005 20100702150354.0
008 090804s2010 mauag b 001 0 eng
010 $a 2009031988
015 $aGBB021673$2bnb
016 7 $a015483359$2Uk
020 $a9780262014052 (hardcover : alk. paper)
020 $a026201405X (hardcover : alk. paper)
035 $a(OCoLC)ocn430678951
040 $aDLC$cDLC$dUKM$dERASA$dC#P$dYDXCP$dBWX$dCDX$dGEBAY$dDLC
050 00 $aP132$b.M85 2010
082 00 $a401$222
100 1 $aMukherji, Nirmalangshu.
245 14 $aThe primacy of grammar /$cNirmalangshu Mukherji.
260 $aCambridge, Mass. :$bMIT Press,$cc2010.
300 $axix, 278 p. :$bill., music ;$c24 cm.
500 $a"A Bradford book."
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aThe 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.
650 0 $aBiolinguistics.
650 0 $aLanguage and languages$xPhilosophy.