The Philosophy of Universal Grammar

Wolfram Hinzen, Michelle Sheehan

Oxford University Press

2013

380 páginas

12h 40m

ISBN-13: 9780199654833

Inglês

This interdisciplinary book considers the relationship between language and thought from a philosophical perspective, drawing both on the philosophical study of language and the purely formal study of grammar, and arguing that the two should align. The claim is that grammar provides homo sapiens with the ability to think in certain grammatical ways and that this in turn explains the vast cognitive powers of human beings. Evidence is considered from biology, theevolution of language, language disorders, and linguistic phenomena.