Detailed Information on Publication Record
2019
From syntax to the structure of thought
STARKE, MichalBasic information
Original name
From syntax to the structure of thought
Authors
STARKE, Michal (756 Switzerland, guarantor, belonging to the institution)
Edition
Wydział Anglistyki UAM w Poznaniu, 2019
Other information
Language
English
Type of outcome
Vyžádané přednášky
Field of Study
60203 Linguistics
Country of publisher
Poland
Confidentiality degree
není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství
RIV identification code
RIV/00216224:14210/19:00107926
Organization unit
Faculty of Arts
Keywords in English
nanosyntax; syntax; concepts; functional sequence; morphology; fseq; thought; language
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International impact
Změněno: 19/3/2020 11:03, prof. Mgr. Pavel Kosek, Ph.D.
Abstract
V originále
I will argue that syntactic research of the last couple of decades completely changes our view of the architecture of language, parts of philosophy of mind, the relationship of language to non-language faculties, our understanding of the relationship of language to thought, etc. Much of what we considered to be language for instance turns out to be language-independent - what we might call 'language-free syntax' - and much of what was thought to be purely arbitrary syntactic constraints turns out to be partially grounded in interpretable (semantic) concepts. Syntactic structures have traditionally been overwhelmingly about verbs and their arguments and modifiers, with just a little bit of 'stuff' (eg S/S') added -- reflecting the view that "the core of syntax" is about the behavior of verbs and their arguments and modifiers. As syntactic inquiry become more sophisticated and fine-grained, that little bit of 'stuff' grew into a large number of functional projections capturing the differing syntax of definite vs indefinite nouns in a number of languages, tensed versus untensed verbs, completion adverbs versus frequentative adverbs, the interaction of floating quantifiers and passive auxiliaries, etc. It is the evolution of that little bit of 'stuff' that has fundamental implications with respect to our understanding of language and mind.
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