语言的基础：大脑、意义、语法和演变PDF电子书下载

PART Ⅰ PSYCHOLOGICAL AND BIOLOGICAL FOUNDATIONS 3

1 The Complexity of Linguistic Structure 3

1.1 A sociological problem 3

1.2 The structure of a simple sentence 5

1.3 Phonological structure 7

1.4 Syntactic structure 9

1.5 Semantic/conceptual and spatial structure 11

1.6 Connecting the levels 13

1.7 Anaphora and unbounded dependencies 15

2 Language as a Mental Phenomenon 19

2.1 What do we mean by"mental"? 19

2.2 How to interpret linguistic notation mentally 23

2.3 Knowledge of language 27

2.4 Competence versus performance 29

2.5 Language in a social context(all too briefly) 34

3 Combinatoriality 38

3.1 The need for an f-mental grammar 38

3.2 Some types of rule 40

3.2.1 Formation rules and typed variables 41

3.2.2 Derivational(transformational)rules 45

3.2.3 Constraints 48

3.3 Lexical rules 51

3.3.1 Lexical formation rules 51

3.3.2 Lexical redundancy rules 53

3.3.3 Inheritance hierarchies 54

3.4 What are rules of grammar? 55

3.5 Four challenges for cognitive neuroscience 58

3.5.1 The massiveness of the binding problem 58

3.5.2 The Problem of 2 61

3.5.3 The problem of variables 64

3.5.4 Binding in working memory vs.long-term memory 65

4 Universal Grammar 68

4.1 The logic of the argument 68

4.2 Getting the hypothesis right 71

4.3 Linguistic universals 74

4.4 Substantive universals,repertoire of rule types,and architectural universals 77

4.5 The balance of linguistic and more general capacities 78

4.6 The poverty of the stimulus;the Paradox of Language Acquisition 82

4.7 Poverty of the stimulus in word learning 87

4.8 How Universal Grammar can be related to genetics 90

4.9 Evidence outside linguistic structure for Universal Grammar/Language Acquisition Device 94

4.9.1 Species-specificity 94

4.9.2 Characteristic timing of acquisition 95

4.9.3 Dissociations 97

4.9.4 Language creation 99

4.10 Summary of factors involved in the theory of Universal Grammar 101

PART Ⅱ ARCHITECTURAL FOUNDATIONS 107

5 The Parallel Architecture 107

5.1 Introduction to Part Ⅱ 107

5.2 A short history of syntactocentrism 107

5.3 Tiers and interfaces in phonology 111

5.4 Syntax and phonology 118

5.5 Semantics as a generative system 123

5.6 The tripartite theory and some variants 125

5.7 The lexicon and lexical licensing 130

5.8 Introduction to argument structure 132

5.9 How much of syntactic argument structure can be predicted from semantics? 138

5.9.1 Number of syntactic arguments 139

5.9.2 Category of syntactic arguments 140

5.9.3 Position of syntactic arguments 142

5.9.4 Locality of syntactic arguments,and exceptions 144

5.10 A tier for grammatical functions? 149

6 Lexical Storage versus Online Construction 152

6.1 Lexical items versus words 152

6.2 Lexical items smaller than words 154

6.2.1 Productive morphology 155

6.2.2 Semiproductive morphology 158

6.2.3 The necessity of a heterogeneous theory 160

6.3 Psycholinguistic considerations 163

6.4 The status of lexical redundancy rules 165

6.5 Idioms 167

6.6 A class of constructional idioms 172

6.7 Generalizing the notion of construction 178

6.8 The status of inheritance hierarchies 183

6.9 Issues of acquisition 187

6.10 Universal Grammar as a set of attractors 190

6.11 Appendix:Remarks on HPSG and Construction Grammar 194

7 Implications for Processing 196

7.1 The parallel competence architecture forms a basis for a processing architecture 196

7.2 How the competence model can constrain theories of processing 200

7.3 Remarks on working memory 205

7.4 More about lexical access 207

7.4.1 Lexical access in perception 207

7.4.2 Priming 209

7.4.3 Lexical access in production 211

7.4.4 Speech errors and tip-of-the-tongue states 215

7.4.5 Syntactic priming 217

7.5 Structure-constrained modularity 218

7.5.1 Fodor's view and an alternative 218

7.5.2 Interface modules are how integrative modules talk to each other 221

7.5.3 The"bi-domain specificity"of interface modules 223

7.5.4 Multiple inputs and outputs on the same"blackboard" 227

7.5.5 Informational encapsulation among levels of structure 228

8 An Evolutionary Perspective on the Architecture 231

8.1 The dialectic 231

8.2 Bickerton's proposal and auxiliary assumptions 235

8.3 The use of symbols 238

8.4 Open class of symbols 241

8.5 A generative system for single symbols:proto-phonology 242

8.6 Concatenation of symbols to build larger utterances 245

8.7 Using linear position to signal semantic relations 246

8.8 Phrase structure 252

8.9 Vocabulary for relational concepts 253

8.10 Grammatical categories and the"basic body plan"of syntax 257

8.11 Morphology and grammatical functions 259

8.12 Universal Grammar as a toolkit again 261

PART Ⅲ SEMANTIC AND CONCEPTUAL FOUNDATIONS 267

9 Semantics as a Mentalistic Enterprise 267

9.1 Introduction to part Ⅲ 267

9.2 Semantics vis-à-vis mainstream generative grammar 268

9.3 Meaning and its interfaces 271

9.4 Chomsky and Fodor on semantics 275

9.5 Some"contextualist"approaches to meaning 280

9.6 Is there a specifically linguistic semantics? 281

9.7 Four non-ways to separate linguistic semantics from conceptualization 285

9.7.1 Semantics="dictionary";pragmatics="encyclopedia" 285

9.7.2 Logical vs.nonlogical semantic properties 287

9.7.3 Grammatically realized vs.grammatically irrelevant content 289

9.7.4 Language-specific semantics implying a special linguistic semantics 291

10 Reference and Truth 294

10.1 Introduction 294

10.2 Problems with the common-sense view:"language" 295

10.3 Problems with the common-sense view:"objects" 300

10.4 Pushing"the world"into the mind 303

10.5 A simple act of deictic reference 306

10.6 The functional correlates of consciousness 310

10.7 Application to theory of reference 314

10.8 Entities other than objects 315

10.9 Proper names,kinds,and abstract objects 318

10.9.1 Proper names 318

10.9.2 Kinds 319

10.9.3 Abstract objects 322

10.10 Satisfaction and truth 324

10.11 Objectivity,error,and the role of the community 329

11 Lexical Semantics 333

11.1 Boundary conditions on theories of lexical meaning 333

11.2 The prospects for decomposition into primitives 334

11.3 Polysemy 339

11.4 Taxonomic structure 343

11.5 Contributions from perceptual modalities 345

11.6 Other than necessary and sufficient conditions 350

11.6.1 Categories with graded boundaries 351

11.6.2 "Cluster"concepts 352

11.7 The same abstract organization in many semantic fields 356

11.8 Function-argument structure across semantic fields 360

11.8.1 Some basic state-and event-functions 360

11.8.2 Building verb meanings 364

11.9 Qualia structure:characteristic activities and purposes 369

11.10 Dot objects 373

11.11 Beyond 375

12 Phrasal Semantics 378

12.1 Simple composition 378

12.1.1 Argument satisfaction 378

12.1.2 Modification 382

12.1.3 Lambda extraction and variable binding 384

12.1.4 Parallels in lexical semantics 386

12.2 Enriched composition 387

12.3 The referential tier 394

12.4 Referential dependence and referential frames 398

12.5 The information structure (topic/focus)tier 408

12.6 Phrasal semantics and Universal Grammar 417

12.7 Beyond:discourse,conversation,narrative 418

13 Concluding Remarks 422

References 431

Index 463