Over the past twenty-five years, Ray Jackendoff has investigated many complex issuesin syntax, semantics, and the relation of language to other cognitive domains. He steps back in thisnew book to surv
Like other recent work in the field of generative-transformational grammar, this book developed from a realization that many problems in linguistics involve semantics too deeply to be solved insightfu
Already hailed as a masterpiece, Foundations of Language offers a brilliant overhaul of the last thirty-five years of research in generative linguistics and related fields. "Few books really deserve
This book emphasizes the role of semantics as a bridge between the theory of language and the theories of other cognitive capacities such as visual perception and motor control.
Semantic Structures is a large-scale study of conceptual structure and its lexicaland syntactic expression in English that builds on the system of Conceptual Semantics described inRay Jackendoff's ear
This work, which has become a classic in music theory since its publication in 1983, models music understanding from the perspective of cognitive science. The point of de
This groundbreaking book offers a new and compelling perspective on the structure of human language. The fundamental issue it addresses is the proper balance between syntax and semantics, between stru
