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This volume focuses on recursion and reveals a host of new theoretical arguments, philosophical perspectives, formal representations, and empirical evidence from parsing, acquisition, and computer models, highlighting its central role in modern science. Noam Chomsky, whose work introduced recursion to linguistics and cognitive science, and other leading researchers in the fields of philosophy, semantics, computer science, and psycholinguistics in showing the profound reach of this concept into modern science.   Recursion has been at the heart of generative grammar from the outset. Recent work in minimalism has put it at center-stage with a wide range of consequences across the intellectual landscape. The contributors to this volume both advance the field and provide a cross-sectional view of the place that recursion takes in modern science.

Psycholinguistics. --- Recursion theory. --- Linguistics. --- Linguistic science --- Science of language --- Language and languages --- Language, Psychology of --- Psychology of language --- Speech --- Linguistics --- Psychology --- Thought and thinking --- Psychological aspects --- Logic, Symbolic and mathematical --- Recursion (Linguistics) --- Grammar, Comparative and general --- Recursion --- Syntax --- Computer science. --- Mathematical Logic and Formal Languages. --- Philosophy of Language. --- Mathematics in the Humanities and Social Sciences. --- Philosophy. --- Informatics --- Science --- Mathematical logic. --- Language and languages—Philosophy. --- Mathematics. --- Social sciences. --- Behavioral sciences --- Human sciences --- Sciences, Social --- Social science --- Social studies --- Civilization --- Math --- Algebra of logic --- Logic, Universal --- Mathematical logic --- Symbolic and mathematical logic --- Symbolic logic --- Mathematics --- Algebra, Abstract --- Metamathematics --- Set theory --- Syllogism

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Modern linguistic theory has been based on the promise of explaining how language acquisition can occur so rapidly with such subtlety, and with both surprising uniformity and diversity across languages. This handbook provides a summary and assessment of how far that promise has been fulfilled, exploring core concepts in acquisition theory, including notions of the initial state, parameters, triggering theory, the role of competition and frequency, and many others, across a variety of syntactic topics that have formed the central domains of investigation and debate. These topics are treated from the unique perspective of central actors in each domain who have helped shape the research agenda. The authors have presented a summary of the data, the theories under discussion, and their own best assessments of where each domain stands. Providing as well the agenda for future work in the field showing both particular needs and general directions that should be pursued in the coming decades.

Language acquisition --- Generative grammar --- Languages & Literatures --- Social Sciences --- Philology & Linguistics --- Psychology --- Language acquisition. --- Generative grammar. --- Grammar, Comparative and general --- Grammar, Generative --- Grammar, Transformational --- Grammar, Transformational generative --- Transformational generative grammar --- Transformational grammar --- Acquisition of language --- Developmental linguistics --- Developmental psycholinguistics --- Language and languages --- Language development in children --- Psycholinguistics, Developmental --- Derivation --- Acquisition --- Linguistics. --- Psycholinguistics. --- Syntax. --- Language and education. --- Language Education. --- Educational linguistics --- Education --- Language, Psychology of --- Psychology of language --- Speech --- Linguistics --- Thought and thinking --- Linguistic science --- Science of language --- Psychological aspects --- Psycholinguistics --- Interpersonal communication in children --- Language and languages. --- Grammar, Comparative and general. --- Comparative grammar --- Grammar --- Grammar, Philosophical --- Grammar, Universal --- Philosophical grammar --- Philology --- Foreign languages --- Languages --- Anthropology --- Communication --- Ethnology --- Information theory --- Meaning (Psychology) --- Grammar, Comparative --- Grammar, Comparative and general Syntax --- Syntax

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Recursion and self-embedding are at the heart of our ability to formulate our thoughts, articulate our imagination and share with other human beings. Nonetheless, controversy exists over the extent to which recursion is shared across all domains of syntax. A collection of 18 studies are presented here on the central linguistic property of recursion, examining a range of constructions in over a dozen languages representing great areal, typological and genetic diversity and spanning wide latitudes. The volume expands the topic to include prepositional phrases, possessives, adjectives, and relative clauses - our many vehicles to express creative thought - to provide a critical perspective on claims about how recursion connects to broader aspects of the mind. Parallel explorations across language families, literate and non-literate societies, children and adults are investigated and constitutes a new step in the generative tradition by simultaneously focusing on formal theory, acquisition and experimentation, and ecologically-sensitive fieldwork, and initiates a new community where these diverse experts collaborate.

Grammar --- Comparative linguistics --- Recursion theory. --- Linguistic analysis (Linguistics) --- Psycholinguistics. --- Grammar, Comparative and general --- Linguistics --- Philology --- Language, Psychology of --- Language and languages --- Psychology of language --- Speech --- Psychology --- Thought and thinking --- Analysis, Linguistic (Linguistics) --- Analysis (Philosophy) --- Logic, Symbolic and mathematical --- Clauses. --- Psychological aspects

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Bringing together papers from various subfields of theoretical linguistics, this volume gives a representative glimpse of current research on form and function in grammar. Its overarching topic is as old as it is hot: the relation between the major clause types as determined in syntax, and their canonical or idiosyncratic roles in discourse as characterized in pragmatic terms. Though none of the papers addresses this topic in its full breadth, they can all be seen to make their specific contributions to it, scrutinizing the pertinent aspects of the grammatical interfaces and elaborating detailed case studies. The first part of this collection comprises three papers (by Asher, Portner, and van Rooy & Franke) devoted to the semantics/pragmatics interface. The second part, with contributions by Rizzi, Saito, and Belletti, deals with the question of how the constitution of sentence types can be related to properties of functional categories in the clausal periphery.The last four papers (Bošković, van Riemsdijk, Bauke & Roeper, Williams) concern the interaction of lexical elements and clausal functional categories, revealing unexpected parallels between clause structure and the internal structure, particularly in lexical categories.

Discourse analysis. --- Grammar, Comparative and general. --- Comparative grammar --- Grammar --- Grammar, Philosophical --- Grammar, Universal --- Language and languages --- Philosophical grammar --- Linguistics --- Philology --- Discourse grammar --- Text grammar --- Semantics --- Semiotics --- Grammar, Comparative --- Grammar, Comparative and general --- Discourse analysis --- Generative Grammar. --- Grammar and Discourse. --- Grammatical Interfaces. --- Sentence/Clause Types.