This work provides a new framework for understanding some of the most profound theories of human language. Ryan M. Nefdt touches on philosophical questions of what languages are, how they evolved and what the science of language should be. He takes insights and results from the natural and formal sciences and translates them into a new domain. His book offers the reader new ways of appreciating how the most unique of human traits--our ability to process and produce natural language--has been and can be studied from a scientific point of view.
This work provides a new framework for understanding some of the most profound theories of human language. Ryan M. Nefdt touches on philosophical questions of what languages are, how they evolved and what the science of language should be. He takes insights and results from the natural and formal sciences and translates them into a new domain. His book offers the reader new ways of appreciating how the most unique of human traits--our ability to process and produce natural language--has been and can be studied from a scientific point of view.
Ryan M. Nefdt is a philosopher of science who works on issues in linguistics, cognitive science, and AI at the University of Cape Town, South Africa. He holds a PhD in Philosophy from the University of St Andrews, an MSc in Logic from the University of Amsterdam and an MA in Philosophy from the University of Cape Town. He has held research positions at various institutions such as MIT, Pittsburgh, Edinburgh, Minnesota, Yale, and Michigan and is published in numerous journals including Linguistics & Philosophy, Mind & Language, Biology & Philosophy, Synthese, Philosophy Compass, and the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
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Acknowledgements Preface Part 1: Introduction 1.1 The Philosophy of Linguistics 1.2 Generative and Non-Generative Frameworks 1.3 Structures and Structuralisms 1.4 A Guide to the Book Part 2: Old Landscapes, New Maps 2.1 What is a Language, Anyway? 2.2 Object-oriented accounts 2.3 State and Network accounts Part 3: The Many and the None 3.1 Anti-realist Accounts 3.2 Why I am not a Pluralist 3.3 No Country for Clear Resolutions Part 4: Language and Structure 4.1 Moderate Naturalism 4.2 Languages as Real Patterns 4.3 Grammars as Compression Algorithms Part 5: Linguistic Patterns and Biological Systems 5.1 Biolinguistics and Biology 5.2 Unbanishing the 'Linguistic Community' 5.3 A Note on Acquisition Part 6: A Case Study: Words and SLEs 6.1 The Naive Picture and Three Naturalistic Desiderata 6.2 Constructions and Constraints 6.3 A Structural Approach to Linguistic Entities Part 7: Structural Realism and the Science of Linguistics 7.1 The Aim and Scope 7.2 Linguistic Theory Change 7.3 Structural Realism in Generative Linguistics 7.4 The Problem of Multiple Grammars Part 8: Language at the Interface 8.1 A Note on Complex Systems 8.2 Levels of Abstraction 8.3 The Proposal 8.4 Semantic Metastructuralism Part 9: Language and Cognitive Science: an arranged marriage 9.1 The Dilemma 9.2 The Study of Mind in Language 9.3 Intersection, Integration, and Architecture 9.4 Unifying Cognitive Structures Conclusion: A Canopy in the Rainforest References
Acknowledgements Preface Part 1: Introduction 1.1 The Philosophy of Linguistics 1.2 Generative and Non-Generative Frameworks 1.3 Structures and Structuralisms 1.4 A Guide to the Book Part 2: Old Landscapes, New Maps 2.1 What is a Language, Anyway? 2.2 Object-oriented accounts 2.3 State and Network accounts Part 3: The Many and the None 3.1 Anti-realist Accounts 3.2 Why I am not a Pluralist 3.3 No Country for Clear Resolutions Part 4: Language and Structure 4.1 Moderate Naturalism 4.2 Languages as Real Patterns 4.3 Grammars as Compression Algorithms Part 5: Linguistic Patterns and Biological Systems 5.1 Biolinguistics and Biology 5.2 Unbanishing the 'Linguistic Community' 5.3 A Note on Acquisition Part 6: A Case Study: Words and SLEs 6.1 The Naive Picture and Three Naturalistic Desiderata 6.2 Constructions and Constraints 6.3 A Structural Approach to Linguistic Entities Part 7: Structural Realism and the Science of Linguistics 7.1 The Aim and Scope 7.2 Linguistic Theory Change 7.3 Structural Realism in Generative Linguistics 7.4 The Problem of Multiple Grammars Part 8: Language at the Interface 8.1 A Note on Complex Systems 8.2 Levels of Abstraction 8.3 The Proposal 8.4 Semantic Metastructuralism Part 9: Language and Cognitive Science: an arranged marriage 9.1 The Dilemma 9.2 The Study of Mind in Language 9.3 Intersection, Integration, and Architecture 9.4 Unifying Cognitive Structures Conclusion: A Canopy in the Rainforest References
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