The philosophy of universal grammar:
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The Philosophy of Universal Grammar
What is grammar? Why does it exist? What difference, if any, does it make to the organization of meaning? This book seeks to give principled answers to these questions. Its topic is universal grammar, in the sense that grammar is universal to human populations. But while modern generative grammar stands in the tradition of Cartesian linguistics as emerging in the 17th century, this book re-addresses the question of the grammatical in a broader historical frame, taking inspiration from Modistic and Ancient Indian philosopher-linguists to formulate a different and ‘Un-Cartesian programme in linguistic theory. Its core claim is that the organization of the grammar is not distinct from the organization of human thought. This sapiens-specific mode of thought is uniquely propositional: grammar, therefore, organizes propositional forms of reference and makes knowledge possible. Such a claim has explanatory power as well: the grammaticalization of the hominin brain is critical to the emergence of our mind and our speciation.
A thoroughly interdisciplinary endeavour, the book seeks to systematically integrate the philosophy of language and linguistic theory. It casts a fresh look at core issues that any philosophy of (universal) grammar will need to address, such as the distinction between lexical and grammatical meaning, the significance of part of speech distinctions, the grammar of reference and deixis, the relation between language and reality, and the dimensions of cross-linguistic and bio-linguistic variation.
Wolfram Hinzen is an ICREA (Catalan Institution for Research and Advanced Studies) research professor based at the Universität de Barcelona.
Michelle Sheehan is a senior lecturer in English Language and Linguistics at Anglia Ruskin University.
An essential reference for anyone trying to grapple with the mysterious underpinning of that most essential of human qualities, language.
Ian Tattersall, Curator Emeritus, American Museum of Natural History
Contents
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Acknowledgements viii
List of Abbreviations xi
Introduction xv
1 The project of a science of language l
1.1 Grammar as a domain of inquiry l
1.2 Cartesian linguistics, 1637-1966 4
1.3 Ancient India 15
1.4 The Modistic viewpoint 23
1.5 Conclusions 33
2 Before there was grammar 35
2.1 Overview 35
2.2 Where semantics begins 37
2.3 Lexicalization: the creation of the lexical atom 47
2.4 Concepts -► intentionality - intensionality grammar reference 53
2.5 Parts of speech and their grammatical semantics 59
2.6 The modes of signifying reloaded 69
2.7 Conclusions 73
3 The content of grammar 75
3.1 Grammar as relational 75
3.2 From parts of speech to the sentence 80
3.3 Content from composition? 88
3.4 Content from the interface? 95
3.5 The phase as the smallest unit of grammatical organization 101
3.6 The absence of X-within-X in language (with Boban Arsenijevic) 110
3.7 Conclusions 115
4 Deriving the formal ontology of language 117
4.1 The grammar of reference 117
4.2 The Topological Mapping Theory (TMT) 119
4.3 Extending the TMT 130
4.4 Extending the Extended TMT (with Txuss Martin) 139
4.4.1 From 3rd-person object reference to pronouns 139
4.4.2 Reference and Person 144
4.4.3 Semantic approaches to the essential indexical 149
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4.4.4 The hierarchy of reference revealed through Romance
object clitics 153
4.4.5 Summary 172
4.5 Conclusions 173
5 Cross-linguistic variation 175
5.1 The apparent problem of linguistic variation 175
5.2 Linguistic variation vs. grammatical variation 178
5.3 Diagnosing grammatical variation 181
5.4 Revisiting the head parameter 184
5.5 Revisiting the null subject parameter 193
5.6 Revisiting the alignment parameter 197
5.7 Conclusions 201
6 The rationality of Case 202
6.1 The apparent irrationality of Case 202
6.2 What do the Cases mean? 204
6.3 Vergnaud’s conjecture and ‘abstract Case’ 211
6.4 The Case filter, reference, and Tense 218
6.5 Event mereology and Case 223
6.6 Conclusions 236
7 Language and spéciation 238
7.1 Why linguistics is biology 238
7.2 Language evolution in a new key 240
7.3 The spéciation of modern Homo sapiens 250
7.4 Conclusions 260
8 Biolinguistic variation 262
8.1 Questioning double dissociations in developmental
language disorders 263
8.2 Thought in genetically normal language-less
or language-impaired adults 266
8.3 Thought without the linguistic genotype 275
8.4 Variation in the linguistic genotype 279
8.5 Formal thought disorder and the de-integration of grammar 285
8.6 Grammatical meaning in the brain 292
8.7 Conclusions 295
9 Thought, language, and reality 296
9.1 The nature of semantics 297
9.2 How can it be that truth is a grammatical concept? 304
Contents vii
9.3 The grammar of truth: a unified account 311
9.4 The limit of grammar and the limits of thought 317
9.5 Language and reality 322
9.6 Is there a science of thought? 328
9.7 Conclusions 336
References 339
Index 375
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