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Arguments in the syntactic straitjacket

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 January 2004

Massimo Piattelli-Palmarini  and
Heidi Harley
Massimo Piattelli-Palmarini*
Affiliation:
Department of Linguistics, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ85721-0028http://w3.arizona.edu/~ling/hh/
Heidi Harley*
Affiliation:
Department of Linguistics, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ85721-0028http://w3.arizona.edu/~ling/hh/
*
massimo@u.arizona.edu
hharley@u.arizona.edu
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Abstract:

While the search for the neural basis of the language of thought is a laudable enterprise, and the article by Hurford a valiant first attempt, we argue that in investigating the argument structure of natural language it will ultimately prove more fruitful to consider the restrictions forced on the system by its inherently syntactic character.

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 26 , Issue 3 , June 2003 , pp. 297 - 298
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2003

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