{"product_id":"foundations-of-language-brain-meaning-grammar-evolution-9780199264377","title":"Foundations of Language: Brain, Meaning, Grammar, Evolution","description":"Already hailed as a masterpiece, \u003cem\u003eFoundations of Language\u003c\/em\u003e offers a brilliant overhaul of the last thirty-five years of research in generative linguistics and related fields. \"Few books really deserve the cliché 'this should be read by every researcher in the field, '\" writes Steven Pinker, author of \u003cem\u003eThe Language Instinct\u003c\/em\u003e, \"But Ray Jackendoff's \u003cem\u003eFoundations of Language\u003c\/em\u003e does.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003cem\u003eFoundations of Language\u003c\/em\u003e offers a radically new understanding of how language, the brain, and perception intermesh. The book renews the promise of early generative linguistics: that language can be a valuable entree into understanding the human mind and brain. The approach is remarkably interdisciplinary. Behind its innovations is Jackendoff's fundamental proposal that the creativity of language derives from multiple parallel generative systems linked by interface components. This shift in basic architecture makes possible a radical reconception of mental grammar and how it is learned. As a consequence, Jackendoff is able to reintegrate linguistics with philosophy of mind, cognitive and developmental psychology, evolutionary biology, neuroscience, and computational linguistics. Among the major topics treated are language processing, the relation of language to perception, the innateness of language, and the evolution of the language capacity, as well as more standard issues in\u003cbr\u003elinguistic theory such as the roles of syntax and the lexicon. In addition, Jackendoff offers a sophisticated theory of semantics that incorporates insights from philosophy of language, logic and formal semantics, lexical semantics of various stripes, cognitive grammar, psycholinguistic and neurolinguistic approaches, and the author's own conceptual semantics.\u003cbr\u003e Here then is the most fundamental contribution to linguistic theory in over three decades.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Ray Jackendoff\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford University Press, USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/06\/2003\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 477\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.79lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.70h x 6.50w x 1.02d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780199264377\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRay Jackendoff\u003c\/strong\u003e is Professor of Linguistics at Brandeis University. A Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, president elect of the Linguistic Society of America, and past president of the Society for Philosophy and Psychology, he is the author of \u003cem\u003eSemantics and Cognition, Consciousness and the Computational Mind\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eThe Architecture of the Language Faculty\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Oxford University Press, USA","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":40767114674291,"sku":"9.78E+12","price":68.02,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_bbf7008e-ad6b-4243-ba8f-db44f776552b.jpg?v=1679577934","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/foundations-of-language-brain-meaning-grammar-evolution-9780199264377","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}