Recursion and Human Language / / ed. by Harry van der Hulst.

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• MitwirkendeR: Gibson, Edward,; Harder, Peter,; Hauser, Marc D.,; Hulst, Harry van der,; Hunyadi, László,; Juarros-Daussà, Eva,; Karlsson, Fred,; Kinsella, Anna R.,; Koster, Jan,; Lander, Yury A.,; Langendoen, D. Terence,; Laury, Ritva,; Letuchiy, Alexander B.,; Levy, Simon D.,; Mithun, Marianne,; Ono, Tsuyoshi,; Perfors, Amy,; Progovac, Ljiljana,; Pullum, Geoffrey K.,; Regier, Terry,; Rogers, James,; Sakel, Jeanette,; Scholz, Barbara C.,; Stapert, Eugenie,; Stout, Lawrence Neff,; Tenenbaum, Joshua B.,; Tiede, Hans-Jörg,; Varley, Rosemary A.,; Verhagen, Arie,; Zimmerer, Vitor,
• HerausgeberIn: Hulst, Harry van der,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2010]; ©2010
• Year of Publication: 2010
• Language: English
• Series: Studies in Generative Grammar [SGG] , 104
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (416 p.) :; num. figs. and tables

The present volume is an edited collection of original contributions which all deal with the issue of recursion in human language(s). All contributions originate as papers that were presented at a conference on the topic of recursion in human language organized by Dan Everett in March 22, 2007. For...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Table of Contents
• Part I. Discussing the need for recursion on empirical grounds
• 1. Pirahã – in need of recursive syntax?
• 2. The fluidity of recursion and its implications
• 3. Syntactic recursion and iteration
• 4. Recursion in conversation: What speakers of Finnish and Japanese know how to do
• 5. What do you think is the proper place of recursion? Conceptual and empirical issues
• Part II. Formal Issues
• 6. Recursion and the infinitude claim
• 7. Just how big are natural languages?
• 8. Recursion, infinity, and modeling
• 9. How recursive is language? A Bayesian exploration
• Part III. Evolutionary Perspectives
• 10. Was recursion the key step in the evolution of the human language faculty?
• 11. When clauses refuse to be recursive: An evolutionary perspective
• 12. The use of formal language theory in studies of artificial language learning: A proposal for distinguishing the differences between human and nonhuman animal learners
• 13. Over the top: Recursion as a functional option
• Part IV. Recursion and the Lexicon
• 14. Lack of recursion in the lexicon: The two-argument restriction
• 15. Kinds of recursion in Adyghe morphology
• 16. Recursion and the Lexicon
• Part V. Recursion outside Syntax
• 17. A note on recursion in phonology
• 18. Cognitive grouping and recursion in prosody
• 19. Becoming recursive: Toward a computational neuroscience account of recursion in language and thought
• 20. Recursion in severe agrammatism
• Backmatter