The primacy of grammar
By: Nirmalangshu Mukherji
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 278
ISBN-13: 9780262014052
Notes: "A Bradford book."

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The loneliness of biolinguistics. Some classical issues; title: Limits of cognitive inquiry; title: Overview of biolinguistics; title: Language and biology; title: A body of doctrines; title: A mind-internal system; title: Linguistic theory I. Russell's scope problem; title: Principles and parameters; title: Government-binding theory; title: D-structure; title: C-selection; title: X-bar theory; title: Theta theory; title: S-structure; title: Case theory; title: Wh-movement; title: Binding theory; title: LF; title: Grammar and scope problem; title: Grammar and logic. Chinese room; title: PFR and SFR; title: LF and logical form; title: Truth and meaning; title: Limits of formal semantics; title: External significance; title: Syntax of thought?; title: Russell's equivalence; title: Summing up; title: Words and concepts. "Incompleteness" of grammar; title: Lexical data; title: Uncertain intuitions; title: Nature of lexical inquiry; title: Lexical decomposition; title: Initial objections; title: Nouns; title: Verbs; title: Crossroads; title: Linguistic theory II. Minimalist program; title: Conceptual necessity; title: Feature checking; title: (New) merge; title: Merge and syntax; title: Merge and semantics; title: Economy principles; title: Chl and linguistic specificity; title: Principles; title: Displacement; title: Language and music. Musilanguage hypothesis; title: Evidence; title: What the evidence means; title: Strong musilanguage hypothesis; title: Music and meaning; title: Themes from Wittgenstein; title: Music and emotions; title: Internal significance; title: Recursion in music; title: A joint of nature. Merge and music; title: Faculty of music; title: "Laws of nature"; title: Forms of explanation; title: Scope of computationalism.