在语言学中，形式方法和功能方法都提供了关于语言可能是什么以及如何运作的见解，但迄今为止，几乎没有任何系统的尝试将它们整合到一个单一的理论中。这本书探讨了普遍语法和象似性之间的关系。普遍语法是我们生成句子的固有机制，象似性是语言中形式和意义之间的相似性。它提供了一种新的互动理论，“UG象似性接口”（UG-I），它表明，不仅普遍语法和象似性共存，而且实际上以复杂和可预测的方式协作。该理论解释了围绕系列动词结构、协调、语义和范畴模糊的“连接词”、外部论点的多个语法方面以及非规范论点的各种难以克服的跨语言事实。对于语言学研究人员和研究生，以及心理学和认知科学学者来说，这项开创性的工作是必不可少的阅读材料。
Universal Grammar and Iconicity
Within linguistics, the formal and functional approaches each offer insight into what language might be and how it operates, but so far, there have been hardly any systematic attempts to integrate them into a single theory. This book explores the relationship between universal grammar – the theory that we have an innate mechanism for generating sentences – and iconicity – the resemblance between form and meaning in language. It offers a new theory of their interactions, ‘UG-iconicity interface’ (UG-I), which shows that not only do universal grammar and iconicity coexist, but in fact collaborate in intricate and predictable ways. The theory explains various recalcitrant cross-linguistic facts surrounding the serial verb constructions, coordination, semantically and categorically obscure ‘linkers’, the multiple grammatical aspects of the external argument, and non-canonical arguments. This groundbreaking work is essential reading for researchers and postgraduate students in linguistics, as well as scholars in psychology and cognitive science.
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