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

New research on different areas of cognition, focusing on language, with contributions that treat topics explored in Ray Jackendoff's pioneering research. This volume offers new research in cognitive science by leading scholars, exploring different areas of cognition with an emphasis on language. The contributions—in such fields as linguistic theory, psycholinguistics, evolution, and consciousness—reflect the thriving interdisciplinary scholarship in cognitive science today. Ray Jackendoff's pioneering cross-disciplinary work was instrumental in establishing the field, and Structures in the Mind, with contributions from Jackendoff's colleagues and former students, is a testament to his lasting influence. After an introduction that includes short reflections on Jackendoff's work by such scholars as Paul Bloom, Noam Chomsky, Barbara Partee, and Steven Pinker, the book presents chapters on linguistics, which build on Jackendoff's theories of conceptual semantics and parallel architectures; psycholinguistics, reaching from linguistics to psychology and neuroscience; and other topics as varied as the evolution of linguistic and musical abilities, consciousness, music theory, and the grammar of comics—with this particular chapter taking the form of a comic. The chapters present fresh data, bold claims, and stimulating theoretical discussions, offering a celebration of cognitive science today. ContributorsDaniel Büring, Neil Cohn, Peter W. Culicover, Daniel Dennett, Cecily Jill Duffield, W. Tecumseh Fitch, Lila Gleitman, Jane Grimshaw, Yosef Grodzinsky, Katharina Hartmann, Albert Kim, Max Soowon Kim, Barbara Landau, Fred Lerdahl, Willem J. M. Levelt, Joan Maling, Bhuvana Narasimhan, Urpo Nikanne, Catherine O'Connor, Maria Mercedes Piñango, Daniel Silverman, Henk Verkuyl, Heike Wiese, Eva Wittenberg, Edgar B. Zurif, Joost Zwarts Introduction -- Simpler syntax and the mind : reflections on syntactic theory and cognitive science / Peter W. Culicover -- What makes conceptual semantics special? / Urpo Nikanne -- Semantic coordination without syntactic coordinators / Daniel Büring and Katharina Hartmann -- Out of phase : form-meaning mismatches in the prepositional phrase / Joost Zwarts -- The light verbs "say" and "say" / Jane Grimshaw -- Cognitive illusions : non-promotional passives and unspecified subject constructions / Joan Maling and Catherine O'Connor -- Agentive subjects and semantic case in Korean / Max Soowon Kim -- Lexical aspect and natural philosophy : how to untie them / Henk J. Verkuyl -- An evolving view of enriched semantic composition / María Mercedes Piñango and Edgar B. Zurif -- Height matters / Barbara Landau and Lila R. Gleitman -- Accessibility and linear order in phrasal conjuncts / Bhuvana Narasimhan, Cecily Jill Duffield, and Albert Kim -- Sleeping beauties / Willem J.M. Levelt -- Evolution of the speech code : higher-order symbolism and the grammatical Big Bang / Daniel Silverman -- Arbitrariness and iconicity in the syntax-semantics interface : an evolutionary perspective / Heike Wiese and Eva Wittenberg -- The biology and evolution of musical rhythm : an update / W. Tecumseh Fitch -- Neural substrates for linguistic and musical abilities : a neurolinguist's perspective / Yosef Grodzinsky -- Structure and ambiguity in a Schumann song / Fred Lerdahl -- The friar's fringe of consciousness / Daniel Dennett -- Climbing trees and seeing stars : combinatorial structure in comics and diverse domains / Neil Cohn.