Language in Cognition

Cedric Boeckx is Research Professor at the Catalan Institute for Advanced Studies (ICREA), and a member of the Center for Theoretical Linguistics at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Most recently he was Associate Professor of Linguistics at Harvard University. He is the author of Islands and Chains (2003), Linguistic Minimalism (2006), Understanding Minimalist Syntax (Wiley-Blackwell, 2007), and Bare Syntax (2008); and the founding co-editor, with Kleanthes K. Grohmann, of the Open Access journal Biolinguistics.

• Acknowledgments viiiPrologue xiPart I Ever Since Chomsky 11 Mind Matters: Chomsky’s Dangerous Idea 32 The Mechanization of the Mind Picture 143 How the Mind Grows: From Meno to Noam 41Part II Unweaving the Sentence 554 Mental Chemistry 575 The Variety of Linguistic Experience: The Towers of Babel and Pisa 826 All Roads Lead to Universal Grammar 95Part III The Mental Foundations of Behavior 1097 Making Sense of Meaning: An Instruction Manual 1118 Wonderful Mental Life: Unthinkable without Language 1209 Grammar Caught in the Act 133Part IV Missing Links 14710 The (Mis)Measure of Mind 14911 Homo Combinans 16312 Computational Organology 173Epilogue 183Notes 189Guide to Further Study 211References 219Index 242

"Amongst the book's strengths, particularly commendable are the connections made to other cognitive domains and the biological sciences." (The Linguist, July 2010) "Although each subsection is brief, the author includes chapter-by-chapter notes of cited material at the end of the text. The motivated reader will have no trouble tracking down the primary sources that the author discusses." (PsycCRITIQUES, March 2010)