Pathways to the Language of Thought
The idea that the core mechanisms of the language faculty ‘provide an internal “language of thought”’ (Berwick and Chomsky, 2011) is still a relatively unfamiliar one: thought is hardly what linguistics is commonly taken to be about. Quite the contrary, the Minimalist Program itself invites us to relegate the study of the ‘Conceptual-Intentional’ systems (effectively, systems of thought) outside of linguistics, locating them on the non-linguistic side of an ‘interface’. Hinzen (2006) on the other hand proposes what Chomsky (2008) calls a ‘radical’ model of the interface, in which ‘central components of thought, such as propositions, are basically derived from the optimally constructed generative procedure’ (Berwick and Chomsky, 2011). Formal semantic primitives thus dissolve into grammatical ones.
Hinzen,Wolfram
Durham University, UK
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2011-12-10（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）