Structures in the mind : essays on language, music, and cognition in honor of Ray Jackendoff

439 Pages·2015·4.089 MB·English

by  Toivonen, Ida, Csúri, Piroska, Zee, Emile van der

Structures in the Mind

S tructures in the Mind
Essays on Language, Music , and Cognition in Honor of
Ray Jackendoff
Ida Toivonen, Piroska Cs ú ri, and Emile van der Zee , editors
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Structures in the mind : essays on language, music, and cognition in honor of Ray
Jackendoff / edited by Ida Toivonen, Piroska Csúri, and Emile van der Zee.
pages cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-0-262-02942-1 (hardcover : alk. paper) 1. Psycholinguistics.
2. Cognitive science. 3. Neurolinguistics. 4.
Cognition. I. Jackendoff, Ray, 1945- honoree. II. Toivonen, Ida. III.
Csúri, Piroska. IV. Zee, Emile van der.
P37.S846 2015
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C ontents
Acknowledgments ix
Introduction xi
0.1 The Scholar Ray Jackendoff, by Ida Toivonen, Piroska Csúri, and
Emile van der Zee xi
0.2 Some Brief Reflections on Ray Jackendoff, by Paul Bloom xii
0.3 Ray Jackendoff’s Scholarship, by Noam Chomsky xii
0.4 The Brilliant Ray of Linguistics, by Adele E. Goldberg xiii
0.5 Meeting Ray Jackendoff, by Georgia M. Green xv
0.6 Ray’s Influence on a Young Generative Semanticist, by Frederick J.
Newmeyer xvi
0.7 Ray Jackendoff in the Semantic Pantheon, by Barbara
H. Partee xvii
0.8 The Man Who Made Language a Window into Human Nature, by
Steven Pinker xix
0.9 Ray Jackendoff, Cognitive Scientist, by Thomas Wasow xxiii
0.10 Why Ray Is Special, by Moira Yip xxv
0.11 The Organization of This Volume, by Ida Toivonen, Piroska Csúri,
and Emile van der Zee xxvi
I LINGUISTIC THEORY 1
1 Simpler Syntax and the Mind: Reflections on Syntactic Theory and
Cognitive Science 3
Peter W. Culicover
2 What Makes Conceptual Semantics Special? 21
Urpo Nikanne
3 Semantic Coordination without Syntactic Coordinators 41
Daniel Büring and Katharina Hartmann
vi Contents
4 Out of Phase: Form-Meaning Mismatches in the Prepositional
Phrase 63
Joost Zwarts
5 The Light Verbs S ay and S AY 79
Jane Grimshaw
6 Cognitive Illusions: Non-Promotional Passives and Unspecified Subject
Constructions 101
Joan Maling and Catherine O’Connor
7 Agentive Subjects and Semantic Case in Korean 119
Max Soowon Kim
8 Lexical Aspect and Natural Philosophy: How to Untie Them 137
Henk J. Verkuyl
II PSYCHOLINGUISTICS 165
9 An Evolving View of Enriched Semantic Composition 167
María Mercedes Piñango and Edgar B. Zurif
10 Height Matters 187
Barbara Landau and Lila R. Gleitman
11 Accessibility and Linear Order in Phrasal Conjuncts 211
Bhuvana Narasimhan, Cecily Jill Duffield, and Albert Kim
12 Sleeping Beauties 235
Willem J. M. Levelt
III LANGUAGE AND BEYOND 257
13 Evolution of the Speech Code: Higher-Order Symbolism and the
Grammatical Big Bang 259
Daniel Silverman
14 Arbitrariness and Iconicity in the Syntax-Semantics Interface: An
Evolutionary Perspective 277
Heike Wiese and Eva Wittenberg
Contents vii
15 The Biology and Evolution of Musical Rhythm: An Update 293
W. Tecumseh Fitch
16 Neural Substrates for Linguistic and Musical Abilities: A Neurolinguist’s
Perspective 325
Yosef Grodzinsky
17 Structure and Ambiguity in a Schumann Song 347
Fred Lerdahl
18 The Friar’s Fringe of Consciousness 371
Daniel Dennett
19 Climbing Trees and Seeing Stars: Combinatorial Structure in Comics and
Diverse Domains 379
Neil Cohn
Contributors 393
Index 395

Acknowledgments
Many people have helped in the creation of this volume, and we would
like to express our sincere gratitude to all. We wish to especially thank
the authors. It was very exciting to receive and read the chapters, and we
truly believe that Ray as well as all other readers will appreciate their
efforts as much as we do. We also want to thank the authors for providing
comments on each other’s initial drafts; the resulting volume bears
witness to the ideas, care and effort they poured into this task. We also
thank the scholars that contributed to the introduction of the volume.
Their contributions provided insights, depth and color that we could not
have managed on our own. In addition, the chapter authors as well as
the authors of the introduction have also patiently helped us with general
advice and encouragement. We must especially mention Joan Maling and
Daniel Dennett for support and practical advice.
Our special thanks also go to the external reviewers who have gener-
ously lent their time to the texts included in this volume: Erik Anonby,
Ash Asudeh, Andrew Brook, Liz Coppock, Simon Durrant, Evan
Houldin, Tabish Ismail, Jonah Katz, Kumiko Murasugi, Diane Nelson,
Dan Siddiqi, and Raj Singh. We are impressed by and grateful for the
reviewers’ enthusiasm, expertise, care, and general willingness to help.
Many thanks to Paul Melchin for his excellent editorial and formatting
assistance.
We also thank all the people at MIT Press who have worked on this
with us. We especially thank Sarah Courtney, Christopher Eyer, Philip
Laughlin, Mary Reilly, and Marcy Ross.
From behind the curtains, Hildy Dvorak has given us advice and
support from the very beginning, and we are very grateful for all her help.
Thank you all!