{"product_id":"explaining-language-universals-isbn-9780631174561","title":"Explaining Language Universals","description":"This book addresses one of the most fundamental questions that can be asked about language: how can we explain language universals? There are currently many different views of this question. Some argue for the innateness of general linguistic principles within the human species. Others see a more social foundation to language, with linguistic structure reflecting various communicative functions. Yet others appleal to the psychological demands placed upon language-users in producing and comprehending language in real time. Language is also seen as a reflection of our human perceptual and cognitive apparatus. And there are also more grammar-internal explanations, whereby one part of the grammar (such as some aspect of surface form) is explained by another (such as the semantics of that form).\u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis book is a state-of-the-art vollume which brings together all of these different views. The contributors have each benn asked to offer some general explanation for which they see evidence, and to provide illustrative universal data supporting it.\u003c\/p\u003e Part 1 Introduction: explaining language universals, John A.Hawkins. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePart 2 Innateness and Learnability: the innateness hypothesis, Teun Hoekstra and Jan G.Kooij \u003cp\u003eLanguage acquisitions - schemas replace universal grammar, Michael A.Arbib and Jane C.Hill\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe \"no negative evidence\" problem - how do children avoid constructing an overly general grammar?, Melissa Bowerman. Max-Planck Institut fur Psycholinguistik, Nijmegen. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePart 3 Semantic and Pragmatic Explanations: on semantics and the binding theory, Edward L.Keenan\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConcessive connecitves and concessive sentences - cross-linguistic regularities and pragmatic principles, Ekkehard Konig\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA discourse approach to the cross-linguistic category \"adjective\", Sandra A.Thompson\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCoreference and conjunction reduction in grammar and discourse, Bernard Comrie. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePart 4 Cognitive, Perceptual and processing explanations: language, perception and the world, Michael Lee\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eParameterizing the language processing system - left-vs. right-branching within and across languages, Lyn Frazier and Keith Rayner\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePsycholinguistic factors in morphological asymmetry, John A.Hawkins, and Anne Cutler. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePart 5 the diachronic dimension: integrating diachronic and processing principles in explaining the suffixing preference, Christopher J.Hall\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe diachronic dimension in explanation, Joan L.Bybee.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cb\u003eJohn A. Hawkins \u003c\/b\u003eis Professor and Chairman of Department in Linguistics at the University of Southern California.  This book addresses one of the most fundamental questions that can be asked about language: how can we explain language universals? There are currently many different views of this question. Some argue for the innateness of general linguistic principles within the human species. Others see a more social foundation to language, with linguistic structure reflecting various communicative functions. Yet others appleal to the psychological demands placed upon language-users in producing and comprehending language in real time. Language is also seen as a reflection of our human perceptual and cognitive apparatus. And there are also more grammar-internal explanations, whereby one part of the grammar (such as some aspect of surface form) is explained by another (such as the semantics of that form).\u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis book is a state-of-the-art vollume which brings together all of these different views. The contributors have each benn asked to offer some general explanation for which they see evidence, and to provide illustrative universal data supporting it.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Wiley-Blackwell","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47989186887909,"sku":"NP9780631174561","price":39.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780631174561.jpg?v=1761783136","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/explaining-language-universals-isbn-9780631174561","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}