Reflections on Syntax: Lectures in General Linguistics, Syntax, and Child Language Acquisition (Hardcover)

List of Figures and Tables ? Preface ? Overview ? Introduction ? Opening Philosophical Questions: Language and Brain Analogies ? Preliminary Overview ? The ‘Four Sentences’ ? Reflections on Syntax ? Reasons for Syntactic Movement/‘Four Sentences’ Revisited ? The Myth of ‘Function Defines Form’ as the Null-Biological Adaptive Process and the Counter Linguistics-Based Response. (The ‘Accumulative Lecture’) ? Poverty of Stimulus ? Concluding Remarks. The Dual Mechanism: Studies on Language ? A Note on ‘Proto-language’: A Merge-Based Theory of Language Acquisition?Case, Agreement and Word Order Revisited ? Concluding Remarks: Lack of Recursion Found in Protolanguage ? A Note on the Dual Mechanism Model: Language Acquisition vs. Learning and the Bell-Shape Curve ? Overview of Chomsky ? Works Cited ? List of Terms (informal definitions) ? Full References and Web Links ? Index.