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This collection of previously unpublished papers explores the implications of Chomsky's Minimalist framework for the modularity of grammar.

Psycholinguistics --- Grammar --- Generative grammar --- Grammar, Comparative and general --- Modularity (Psychology) --- Language, Psychology of --- Language and languages --- Psychology of language --- Speech --- Linguistics --- Psychology --- Thought and thinking --- Grammar, Generative --- Grammar, Transformational --- Grammar, Transformational generative --- Transformational generative grammar --- Transformational grammar --- Syntax --- Faculty psychology --- Modules (Psychology) --- Human information processing --- Psychological aspects --- Derivation --- Psycholinguistics. --- Generative grammar. --- Syntax. --- Philology --- Grammar, Comparative and general Syntax

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Experts from diverse fields, including artificial life, cognitive science, economics, developmental and evolutionary biology, and the arts, discuss modularity.Modularity--the attempt to understand systems as integrations of partially independent and interacting units--is today a dominant theme in the life sciences, cognitive science, and computer science. The concept goes back at least implicitly to the Scientific (or Copernican) Revolution, and can be found behind later theories of phrenology, physiology, and genetics; moreover, art, engineering, and mathematics rely on modular design principles. This collection broadens the scientific discussion of modularity by bringing together experts from a variety of disciplines, including artificial life, cognitive science, economics, evolutionary computation, developmental and evolutionary biology, linguistics, mathematics, morphology, paleontology, physics, theoretical chemistry, philosophy, and the arts.The contributors debate and compare the uses of modularity, discussing the different disciplinary contexts of "modular thinking" in general (including hierarchical organization, near-decomposability, quasi-independence, and recursion) or of more specialized concepts (including character complex, gene family, encapsulation, and mosaic evolution); what modules are, why and how they develop and evolve, and the implication for the research agenda in the disciplines involved; and how to bring about useful cross-disciplinary knowledge transfer on the topic. The book includes a foreword by the late Herbert A. Simon addressing the role of near-decomposability in understanding complex systems.

Evolution (Biology) --- Natural selection. --- Chaotic behavior in systems. --- Modularity (Psychology) --- Biocomplexity. --- Natural selection --- Chaotic behavior in systems --- Biocomplexity --- Biology --- Health & Biological Sciences --- Evolution --- Biological complexity --- Complexity, Biological --- Chaos in systems --- Chaos theory --- Chaotic motion in systems --- Darwinism --- Selection, Natural --- Faculty psychology --- Modules (Psychology) --- Animal evolution --- Animals --- Biological evolution --- Evolutionary biology --- Evolutionary science --- Origin of species --- Biodiversity --- Differentiable dynamical systems --- Dynamics --- Nonlinear theories --- System theory --- Genetics --- Variation (Biology) --- Biological invasions --- Heredity --- Human information processing --- Biological fitness --- Homoplasy --- Phylogeny --- BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES/Evolution --- BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES/General --- Evolution (Biology). --- Modularity (Psychology).