The Architecture of the Language Faculty

Minor rubbing. VG. Comparative Grammar MIT Press Cambridge [MA] (1997) orig.cloth 23x15cm, xvi,262 pp, Series: Linguistic Inquiry Monographs, 28. Contents: Questions, Goals, Assumptions: Universal Grammar; Necessities & Assumptions; Syntactocentrism & Perfection; Interfaces: Representational Modularity: The "Articulatory-Perceptual" Inrterfaces; The Phonology- Syntax Interface; The "Conceptual-Intentional" Interface; Embedding Mismatches beteen Syntactic Structure & Conceptual Structure; The Tripartite Parallel Architecture; Repsentational Modularity; More on the Syntax-Semantics Interface: Enriched Composition; Aspectual Coercions; Reference Transfer Functions; Argument Structure Alternations; Adjective- Noun Modification; Anaphora; Quantification; The Lexical Interface: Lexical Insertion versus Lexical Licensing; PIL = CIL; PIL and CIL Are at S-Structure; Checking Argument Structure; Remarks on Procesing; The Lexicon in a More General Mental Ecology; Lexical Entries, Lexical Rules: Broadening the Conception of the Lexicon; Morphosyntax versus Morphophonology; Inflectional versus Derivational Morphology; Productivity versus Semiproductivity; Psycholingustic Considerations; "Optimal Coding" of Semiproductive Forms; Remarks on Productive Morphology: The Place of Traditional Morphophonology; Phonological & Class-Based Allomorphy; Suppletion of Composed Forms by Irregulars; The Status of Zero Inflections;Why the Lexicon Cannot Be Minimalist; Idioms & Other Fixed Expressions; The Wheel of Fortune Corpus: If It Isn't Lexical, What Is It?; Epilogue: How Language Helps Us Think.