false 78005 0 0 84993 0465054625 9780465054626 6 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171058657m/84993.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171058657s/84993.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/84993.Patterns_in_the_Mind_Language_and_Human_Nature 3.54 28 78005 3.80 81 10 1994 224184 0199264376 9780199264377 2 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172855364m/224184.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172855364s/224184.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/224184.Foundations_of_Language_Brain_Meaning_Grammar_Evolution 4.05 22 78005 3.80 81 10 2002 134910 0262600137 9780262600132 0 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172049870m/134910.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172049870s/134910.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/134910.Semantics_and_Cognition 4.00 11
Ray Jackendoff is Professor of Linguistics and Chairman of the Linguistics and Cognitive Science Program at Brandeis University. His most recent book, coauthored with Fred Lerdahl, is A Generative Theory of Tonal Music (MIT Press paperback). Semantics and Cognition is included in the series, Current Studies in Linguistics.]]> 78005 3.80 81 10 1983 224192 0262600242 9780262600248 1 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172855365m/224192.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172855365s/224192.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/224192.Languages_of_the_Mind_Essays_on_Mental_Representation 4.33 6
Languages of the Mind provides convenient access to Jackendoff's work over the past five years on the nature of mental representations in a variety of cognitive domains, in the context of a detailed theory of the level of conceptual structure developed in his earlier books, Semantics and Cognition and Consciousness and the Computational Mind. The first two chapters summarize the theory of levels of mental representation ("languages of the mind") and their relationships to each other and show how conceptual structure can be approached along lines familiar from syntactic and phonological theory. From this background, subsequent chapters develop issues in word learning (and its pertinence to the Piaget-Chomsky debate) and the relation of conceptual structure to the understanding of physical space.

A Bradford Book]]> 78005 3.80 81 10 1992 1015937 0262100436 9780262100434 0 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1180251258m/1015937.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1180251258s/1015937.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1015937.Semantic_Structures 3.00 2 Semantic Structures is a large-scale study of conceptual structure and its lexical and syntactic expression in English that builds on the system of Conceptual Semantics described in Ray Jackendoff's earlier books Semantics and Cognition and Consciousness and the Computational Mind.

Jackendoff summarizes the relevant arguments in his two previous books, setting out the basic parameters for the formalization of meaning, and comparing his mentalistic approach with Fodor's Language of Thought hypothesis. He then takes up the Problem of Meaning, extending the range of semantic fields encompassed by the Conceptual Semantics formalism, and the Problem of Correspondence, formalizing the relation between semantic and syntactic structure. Both of these problems must be fully addressed in order to develop a general theory of language that is concerned with syntax and semantics and their points of connection.

Few books on lexical semantics present such a comprehensive analysis of such a wide range of phenomena from a unified perspective. Besides discussing the conceptual structures of hundreds of words and constructions, Jackendoff extends and deepens the theory to come to grips with such crucial issues as Θ-roles and Θ-marking; arguments, modifiers, and adjuncts; binding and control; and the thematic linking hierarchy.

Ray Jackendoff is Chairman of the Program in Linguistics and Cognitive Science at Brandeis University.]]> 78005 3.80 81 10 1990 224193 0262600072 9780262600071 0 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172855366m/224193.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172855366s/224193.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/224193.Semantic_Interpretation_in_Generative_Grammar 3.00 1 Aspect of the Theory of Syntax. Dr Jackendoff has attempted to take a broader view of semantics, studying the important contribution it makes to the syntactic patterns of English.

The research is carried out in the framework of an interpretive theory, that is, a theory of grammar in which syntactic structures are given interpretations by an autonomous syntactic component. The book investigates a wide variety of semantic rules, stating them in considerable detail and extensively treating their consequences for the syntactic component of the grammar. In particular, it is shown that the hypothesis that transformations do not change meaning must be abandoned; but equally stringent restrictions on transformations are formulated within the interpretive theory.

Among the areas of grammar discussed are the well-known problems of case relations, pronominalization, negation, and quantifiers. In addition, the author presents semantic analyses of such neglected areas as adverbs and intonation contours; he also proposes radically new approaches to the so-called Crossover Principle, the control problem for complement subjects, parentheticals, and the interpretation of nonspecific noun phrases.]]> 78005 3.80 81 10 1973 224188 0262600250 9780262600255 0 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172855364m/224188.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172855364s/224188.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/224188.The_Architecture_of_the_Language_Faculty 3.00 1
Starting from the "Minimalist" necessity for interfaces of the grammar with sound, meaning, and the lexicon, Jackendoff examines many standard assumptions of generative grammar that in retrospect may be seen as the product of historical accident. He then develops alternatives more congenial to contemporary understanding of linguistic phenomena.

The Architecture of the Language Faculty seeks to situate the language capacity in a more general theory of mental representations and to connect the theory of grammar with processing. To this end, Jackendoff works out an architecture that generates multiple co-constraining structures, and he embeds this proposal in a version of the modularity hypothesis called Representational Modularity.

Jackendoff carefully articulates the nature of lexical insertion and the content of lexical entries, including idioms and productive affixes. The resulting organization of the grammar is compatible with many different technical realizations, which he shows can be instantiated in terms of a variety of current theoretical frameworks.

Linguistic Inquiry Monograph No. 28]]> 78005 3.80 81 10 1996 193389 026210119X 9780262101196 0 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/193389.Language_Consciousness_Culture_Essays_on_Mental_Structure 3.00 1 Language, Consciousness, Culture represents a breakthrough in developing an integrated theory of human cognition. It will be of interest to a broad spectrum of cognitive scientists, including linguists, philosophers, psycholinguists, neuroscientists, cognitive anthropologists, and evolutionary psychologists.

Jackendoff argues that linguistics has become isolated from the other cognitive sciences at least partly because of the syntax-based architecture assumed by mainstream generative grammar. He proposes an alternative parallel architecture for the language faculty that permits a greater internal integration of the components of language and connects far more naturally to such larger issues in cognitive neuroscience as language processing, the connection of language to vision, and the evolution of language.

Extending this approach beyond the language capacity, Jackendoff proposes sharper criteria for a satisfactory theory of consciousness, examines the structure of complex everyday actions, and investigates the concepts involved in an individual's grasp of society and culture. Each of these domains is used to reflect back on the question of what is unique about human language and what follows from more general properties of the mind.

Language, Consciousness, Culture extends Jackendoff's pioneering theory of conceptual semantics to two of the most important domains of human thought: social cognition and theory of mind. Jackendoff's formal framework allows him to draw new connections among a large variety of literatures and to uncover new distinctions and generalizations not previously recognized. The breadth of the approach will foster cross-disciplinary conversation; the vision is to develop a richer understanding of human nature.]]> 78005 3.80 81 10 2007 6894270 9027445222 1 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1253539867m/6894270.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1253539867s/6894270.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6894270-taal-en-de-menselijke-natuur 0.0 0 78005 3.80 81 10 1996 6520956 0 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6520956-foundations-of-language 0.0 0 78005 3.80 81 10 2009