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La Humanidad tiene en su diversidad lingüística uno de sus mayorescaudales. La multiplicación de lenguas es una fuente, insustituible, debelleza y conocimiento. El estudio de los sistemas lingüístico

Un estudio de la fugura de José Marchena como hombre de letras y filólogoJosé Marchena (1768-1821) constituye una de las voces intelectuales más inquietas y audaces de aquellos famosos traidores, que pronto condenaria al ostracismo fray Manuel Martinez en 1814: Traidores, si, traidores os llamaba a boca llena la España toda. Representa como ninguno este papel del traidor en un extenso catalogo de descalificativos, entre los que destaca el relato que nos ofrecera Menendez Pelayo en su Historia de los heterodoxos. Con este libro se pretende ofrecer una contra-lectura de dichas imagenes. Porque frente al politico y el ideologo, tambien desarrollara una infatigable labor como hombre de letras, al servicio asimismo de su otra pasion: la filologia. Una faceta que, ademas, en su reciproca condicion de intenso intermediador cultural entre Francia y España, tambien va a ofrecernos otros registros como poeta, ensayista, periodista y dramaturgo, erudito e historiador de la literatura española, ademas de traductor de Rousseau, Voltaire, Montesquieu, Moliere, o sus admirados referentes de la cultura grecolatina, donde sobresale su traduccion de De rerum natura de Lucrecio, y donde nos muestra su fuerte compromiso social desde una original vision de la filologia como medio para la accion politica.Alberto Romero Ferr...

La obra de Rafael Cano resulta ineludible para cualquier estudioso de la historia del español. Aunque hay ámbitos a los que ha dedicado una atención especial, como la sintaxis histórica, la variación linguistica y el analisis del discurso, ninguno esta ausente en su produccion, desde los que conciernen a la fonetica, fonologia, grafematica y ecdotica, hasta los centrados en cuestiones de lexicologia, lexicografia y semantica. Todos estan representados en las colaboraciones de los mas de 60 amigos y colegas, españoles y extranjeros, recogidas en estos dos volumenes sobre El español a traves del tiempo, que seran igualmente indispensables en la investigacion de la trayectoria de nuestro idioma.

Over the past twenty-five years, Ray Jackendoff has investigated many complex issues in syntax, semantics, and the relation of language to other cognitive domains. He steps back in this new book to survey the broader theoretical landscape in linguistics, in an attempt to identify some of the sources of the widely perceived malaise with respect to much current theorizing.Starting from the "Minimalist" necessity for interfaces of the grammar with sound, meaning, and the lexicon, Jackendoff examines many standard assumptions of generative grammar that in retrospect may be seen as the product of historical accident. He then develops alternatives more congenial to contemporary understanding of linguistic phenomena.The Architecture of the Language Faculty seeks to situate the language capacity in a more general theory of mental representations and to connect the theory of grammar with processing. To this end, Jackendoff works out an architecture that generates multiple co-constraining structures, and he embeds this proposal in a version of the modularity hypothesis called Representational Modularity.Jackendoff carefully articulates the nature of lexical insertion and the content of lexical entries, including idioms and productive affixes. The resulting organization of the grammar is compatible with many different technical realizations, which he shows can be instantiated in terms of a variety of current theoretical frameworks.Linguistic Inquiry Monograph No. 28

This groundbreaking book offers a new and compelling perspective on the structure of human language. The fundamental issue it addresses is the proper balance between syntax and semantics, between structure and derivation, and between rule systems and lexicon. It argues that the balance struck by mainstream generative grammar is wrong. It puts forward a new basis for syntactic theory, drawing on a wide range of frameworks, and charts new directions for research. In the past four decades, theories of syntactic structure have become more abstract, and syntactic derivations have become ever more complex. Peter Culicover and Ray Jackendoff trace this development through the history of contemporary syntactic theory, showing how much it has been driven by theory-internal rather than empirical considerations. They develop an alternative that is responsive to linguistic, cognitive, computational, and biological concerns. At the core of this alternative is the Simpler Syntax Hypothesis: the most explanatory syntactic theory is one that imputes the minimum structure necessary to mediate between phonology and meaning. A consequence of this hypothesis is a far richer mapping between syntax and semantics than is generally assumed. Through concrete analyses of numerous grammatical phenomena, some well studied and some new, the authors demonstrate the empirical and conceptual superiority of the Simpler Syntax approach. Simpler Syntax is addressed to linguists of all persuasions. It will also be of central interest to those concerned with language in psychology, human biology, evolution, computational science, and artificial intellige

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