1: The Project of a Science of Language
2: Before There was Grammar
3: The Content of Grammar
4: Deriving the Formal Ontology of Language
5: Cross-linguistic Variation
6: The Rationality of Case
7: Language and Speciation
8: Biolinguistic Variation
9: Thought, Language, and Reality
Wolfram Hinzen is a Research Professor at the Catalan Institute for
Advanced Studies and Research (ICREA) and affiliated with the
linguistics department of the University of Barcelona and the
Philosophy Department of the University of Durham (2006-2014). He
writes on issues in the interface of language and mind. He is the
author of Mind Design and Minimal Syntax (OUP, 2006) and An Essay
on Names and Truth (OUP, 2007) and co-editor of The
Oxford Handbook of Compositionality (OUP, 2012).
Michelle Sheehan is a Research Associate at the University of
Cambridge specialising in comparative syntax with a particular
interest in the Romance languages. She has worked on null
arguments, Control, word order variation, extraposition,
clausal-nominal parallels and case/alignment. She is co-author of
Parametric Variation: Null Subjects in Minimalist Theory (CUP,
2009) and the forthcoming volumes The Final over Final Constraint
(MIT Press) and Theoretical Approaches to
Disharmonic Word Orders (OUP).
A radical vision that challenges standard conceptions that human
language is a mere conduit for thought, that there is a Language of
Thought, and that Grammar and Semantics are separable. Hinzen and
Sheehan ground their Un-Cartesian approach in ancient linguistic
traditions in India and in the work of the Modistae, for whom
grammar was central to an understanding of minds, and reality.
Upturning major assumptions of modern Linguistics and Philosophy of
Language, this enthralling book is a central one for Cognitive
Science
*Jill De Villiers, Professor of Psychology and Philosophy, Smith
College*
An essential reference for anyone trying to grapple with the
mysterious underpinnings of that most essential of human qualities,
language
*Ian Tattersall, Curator Emeritus, American Museum of Natural
History*
This book asks some of the most fundamental questions that there
can be about language and mind, and answers them in ways which are
provocative, challenging, and surprising, in the context of current
theorizing within philosophy and linguistics. The theory is
supported by a wealth of conceptual and empirical arguments with
detailed discussion of consequences for central grammatical notions
such as case, person, word order, phases, and semantic notions such
as reference, predication, and truth. This must be one of the most
important books about language and thought in a very long time.
*Anders Holmberg, Professor of Theoretical Linguistics, Newcastle
University*
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