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Knowledge and language. Vol. 2, Lexical and conceptual structure

Studying the relation between knowledge and language, one may distinguish two different lines of inquiry, one focussing on language as a body of knowledge, the other on language as a vehicle of knowledge.
Print Book, English, ©1993
Kluwer Academic, Dordrecht, ©1993
Conference papers and proceedings
vii, 272 pages ; 25 cm
9780792318880, 9780792317890, 9780792317906, 0792318889, 0792317890, 0792317904
1000558175
Volume I 0. Introduction; E. Reuland, W. Abraham. 1. Reflections on Knowledge and Language; E. Reuland. 2. Mental Construction and Social Reality; N. Chomsky. 3. Some Reflections on our Sceptical Crisis; H. Bracken. 4. The `Least Effort' Principle in Child Grammar: Choosing a Marked Parameter; T. Roeper. 5. The Emergence of Bound Variable Structures; T. Roeper, J. de Villiers. 6. Categories in the Parameters Perspective: Null Subjects and V-to-I; M.R. Manzini. 7. Linguistic Theory and Language Acquisition Facts: Reformulation, Maturation or Invariance of Binding Principles; C. Jakubowicz. 8. Universal Grammar and Learnability Theory: The Case of Binding Domains and the `Subset Principle'; S. Kapur, B. Lust, W. Harbert, G. Motohardjono. 9. The Subset Principle is an Intensional Principle; K. Wexler. 10. Lexical Access and Speech Production; W.J.M. Levelt. Index. Volume II Introduction; E. Reuland, W. Abraham. Semantic Structures and Semantic Properties; B. Partee. The Combinatorial Structure of Thought: The Family of Causative Concepts; R. Jackendoff. Input Systems, Anaphora, Ellipsis, and Operator Binding; R. Kempson. Conceptual Structure and its Relation to the Structure of Lexical Items; J. Kornfilt, N. Correa. From Conceptual Structure to Syntax: Projecting from Resultatives; J. Carrier, J. Randall. Obligatory Adjuncts and the Structure of Events; J. Grimshaw, S. Vikner. Stage and Adjunct Predicates; T. Rapoport. Middle Constructions; T. Hoekstra, I. Roberts. Index.
Papers presented at the Conference on Knowledge and Language held May 21-25, 1989 on the occasion of the 375th anniversary of the University of Groningen