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I-Language
An Introduction to Linguistics as Cognitive Science
Daniela Isac and Charles Reiss
336 pages
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Figures and line drawings
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246x171mm
978-0-19-953420-3
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Paperback
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24 April 2008
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- Contains phonological parallels to familiar syntactic arguments
- Companion website with additional exercises, guidance for instructors, and links to related material
- Shot through with anecdote and humour
- Two-colour printing throughout
- Clearly presented with examples at every step
I-Language introduces the uninitiated to linguistics as cognitive science. In an engaging, down-to-earth style Daniela Isac and Charles Reiss give a crystal-clear demonstration of the application of the scientific method in linguistic theory. Their presentation of the research programme inspired and led by Noam Chomsky shows how the focus of theory and research in linguistics shifted from treating language as a disembodied, human-external entity to cognitive biolinguistics - the study of language as a human cognitive system embedded within the mind/brain of each individual. The recurring theme of equivalence classes in linguistic computation ties together the presentation
of material from phonology, morphology, syntax, and semantics. The same theme is used to help students understand the place of linguistics in the broader context of the cognitive sciences, by drawing on examples from vision, audition, and even animal cognition.
This textbook is unique in its integration of empirical issues of linguistic analysis, engagement with philosophical questions that arise in the study of language, and treatment of the history of the field. Topics ranging from allophony to reduplication, ergativity, and negative polarity are invoked to show the implications of findings in cognitive biolinguistics for philosophical issues like reference, the mind-body problem, and nature-nurture debates.
This textbook contains numerous
exercises and guides for further reading as well as ideas for student projects. A companion website with guidance for instructors and answers to the exercises features a series of pdf slide presentations to accompany the teaching of each topic. Readership: The well-tested material in the book is appropriate for a variety of audiences, from large introductory courses in linguistics to graduate seminars in cognitive science or philosophy of mind.
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Daniela Isac, Concordia University, and Charles Reiss, Concordia University Companion Website
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"This book is an engaging and pioneering introduction to Biolinguistic theory construction and scientific method. It's one of very few texts I've ever read that clarifies, with formal yet accessible linguistic analyses and argument, the Chomskyan shift in focus away from treating human language as some kind of non-psychological human-external entity to the study of human language as "I-language" - a cognitive system embedded within the mind/brain of each individual." - Professor Samuel Epstein, University of Michigan "Strikingly original and fully student-oriented, this book covers all the bases of modern linguistic theory from a single perspective: the workings of the human mind. Breaking with the traditional organization of
a linguistics textbook, Isac and Reiss juxtapose an engaging presentation of linguistic analysis with exciting discussion of relevant aspects from cognitive science and philosophy. This is arguably the most stimulating introductory textbook around today, offering an approach that I now know was sorely missed." - Dr Jan-Wouter Zwart, University of Groningen
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Part I The Object of Inquiry
1: The Object of Inquiry
2: I-Everything: Triangles, Streams, Words
3: Approaches to the Study of Language
4: I-/E-/P-Language
Part II Linguistic Representation and Computation
5: A Syntactic Theory That Won't Work
6: Abstract Representations
7: Some Details of Sentence Structure
8: Binding
9: Ergativity
Part III Universal Grammar
10: Approaches to UG: Empirical Evidence
11: Approaches to UG: Logic
Part IV Implications and Conclusions
12: Social Implications
13: Some Philosophy
14: Open Questions and Closing Remarks
References
Index
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