Reflections on Chomsky's Strong Minimalist Thesis: Evolution, UG Residues, and Helen Keller
Suzuki, Norio 20070731 Shunpusha Publishing,376p.
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■Suzuki, Norio 20070731 Reflections on Chomsky's Strong Minimalist Thesis: Evolution, UG Residues, and Helen Keller,Shunpusha Publishing,376p. ISBN-10:486110114X ISBN-13:978-4861101144 \8000 [amazon]/[kinokuniya] ※ mc
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CONTENTS
PREFACE and BEYOND
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
1 Minimalism and Its Implications for Language Acquisition and Learnability
1.1 Some General Discussion
1.2 Learnability
1.3 Conclusion
Notes
2 Triggers, Minimalism and Learnability
2.1 Some General Remarks
2.2 External Approaches to Learnability
2.3 Intensional Approaches and Triggering Bootstrapping
2.3.1 Fodor 1998, Dresher 1999, and Lightfoot 1999 from the Viewpoint of Minimalism
2.3.2 Bootstrapping as Trigger
2.4 EPP-Parametrization
2.4.1 Functional Projections and EPP-Parametrization
2.4.2 Triggers for EPP-Parameters
Notes
3 Universals,Occam's Razor and the Strong Minimalist Thesis
3.1 Introduction
3.2 Evolution and the Form and Functioning of FL
3.3 Methodological and Ontological Minimalism
3.4 Substantive and Formal Universals
3.5 Multiple Spell-Out
3.6 Universals and Minimalism
3.7 Mathematical Properties in and out of FL
Note
4 How the Reality Can Be Compatible with the Strong Minimalist Thesis: Interfacing, Economy and Variation
4.1 Introduction
4.2 Some General Discussion
4.3 Interfaces as 'Invasive Components'
4.4 Multiple Spell-Out and the Syntax-Phonology Interface
4.4.1 Boskovic(2001)
4.4.2 Legate(2003)
4.5 Syntax-Pragmatics Interface(Lopez 2003)
4.6 Syntax-Semantics Interface and Parametric Variation
4.6.1 Lopez and Winkler(2003)
4.6.2 Coordinate Structure
4.6.3 Felser(2004)
4.7 Reanalysis of Adjunction Structure
4.8 Semantics-Epistemology AAssociation(Minkoff 2003)
4.9 Some Remarks on the Cartography Project
4.10 Conclusion
Notes
5 Two Case Studies in Language Acquisition: Evolution,Efficient Computation and Learnability
5.1 Introduction
5.2 Some General Discussion
5.3 Two Case Studies in Learnability
5.3.1 Learnability of the Sika-Nai Construction in Japanese
5.3.1.1 Some Naive Considerations
5.3.1.2 A More Principled Account
5.3.1.2.1 On the Nature After-Birth Child's Rules
5.3.1.2.2 The Nature Part
5.3.1.2.3 Bootstrapping and the Nature Part
5.3.2 Learnability of the Wanna-Constraction in English
5.4 Four Criteria of a Learnability Theory
5.4.1 Descriptive Adequacy
5.4.2 Explanatory Adequacy/Learnability and Some Remarks on the Ontology of Language
5.4.2.1 Some Factual Acquisitional Scenarios Reconsidered: With Special Reference to the So-Called Parameter Setting
5.5 Some Related Considerations
5.5.1 Two Different Interpretations of the SMT
5.5.2 Requirement of Efficient Computation and the Status of So-Called "Deviant" Expressions
5.5.3 Kiguchi and Thornton(2004)
5.5.4 Some Remarks on the Ontological Status of Grammars
5.6 Conclusion
Notes
6 What Language is Made From: Helen Keller, Some UG Residues and the Strong Minimalist Thesis
6.1 Introduction
6.2 Some General Discussion from the Perspective of the Framework Adopted So Far
6.2.1 On the Residues of FLN/UG: Case and the EPP
6.2.1.1 Case
6.2.1.2 The EPP
6.3 Helen Keller
6.3.1 A Short Introduction to the Prolems Raised by Gill(1997)
6.3.2 A Critical Examination of Gill's (1997) Arguments against Chomskian Nativism
6.4 Symmetry, Asymmetry/Antisymmetry and Related Matters
6.4.1 The Unconscious and Language
6.4.2 Nakazawa(2004) and Moro(2004): Preliminary Discussion from the Perspective of "Compression"
6.4.3 The Parser, the Top-down Approach to Structure-Building and FLN
6.4.4 Sigurosson(2006a): Low Nominative Hypothesis
6.4.5 Reinhart(2006): Reference-Set Computation
6.5 Some Preliminary Considerations on the Role of Dimensions in the Analysis of Human Language
6.5.1 Uriagereka and Pietroski(2002)
Notes
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