The organization of language. - MOULTON, J., and G.M. ROBINSON,
KORTE INHOUD
What are the essential features that permit a sentence to convey a complex idea? What must language users do in order to produce and understand meaningful sentences? And what enables humans, and perhaps apes and robots, to learn this remarkable skill? Janice Moulton and George Robinson offer a fresh and readable approach to these questions. They present an important new theory that clarifies the relationship of language to thought. This theory, which will attract considerable critical attention, combines a general analysis of language with an original cognitive model of syntax and language acquisition; it is a refreshing alternative to recent theories that attempt to formalize all aspects of the relationship of language to thought. The authors provide a helpful review of current theories- including transformational grammar and case theory- and show how they are related to their own 'orrery' and 'syntax crystal' formulations. (Publisher's information). From the library of the late Sir Kenneth James Dover.
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Cambridge (...), 1981. XVI,389p. Paperback. A few pen markings and annotations till p.76 (p.76 dog's eared). Small personal library mark and name on free endpaper. [Antiquarian] [Auteur: MOULTON, J., and G.M. ROBINSON,] [Uitgever: Cambridge University Press] [Jaar: 1981] [Titel: The organization of language.]
