Ray Jackendoff

Ray Jackendoff ( born 1945 ) is an American linguist. Since 2005 he is Professor of Philosophy at Tufts University in Medford, Massachusetts. From 1971 to 2005 he was a professor of linguistics at Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts.

His work moves on the field between generative grammar and cognitive linguistics. As a student of Noam Chomsky he believes in an innate universal grammar, with its research, the semantics of natural languages ​​also includes how their lexical and syntactic forms. Jackendoff also investigated the relationship between consciousness and the computational theory of mind, and, along with Fred Lerdahl ( b. 1943 ), the musical cognition. His theory of Conceptual Semantics, he developed towards a comprehensive theory about the basics of language. In 2003 he was awarded the Jean Nicod Prize. For 2014, it the Rumelhart Prize was awarded.

Works

  • Ray Jackendoff (1993 ) Patterns in the Mind: Language and Human Nature. Hemel Hempstead: Harvester Wheatsheaf -.
  • Ray Jackendoff (2002) Foundations of Language ( Brain, Meaning, Grammar, Evolution). Oxford / New York: Oxford University Press.
  • Peter Culicover and Ray Jackendoff (2005) Simpler syntax. Oxford / New York: Oxford University Press.
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