Abstract

Following on from recent work in minimalist syntax and ethology, I explore the implications of assuming that the operation Label is the defining feature of the human computational system. It is shown that labeling is responsible for a number of semantic and cognitive properties of the interpretative systems, a conclusion with direct repercussions for the study of the mind/brain. Finally, it is shown that the emergence of Label limits and directs human referentiality.

Highlights

  • Following on from recent work in minimalist syntax and ethology, I explore the implications of assuming that the operation Label is the defining feature of the human computational system

  • Since the emergence of the biolinguistic enterprise in the 1950s and 1960s (Lenneberg 1967), a major concern of linguists has been to uncover the biological basis of what syntacticians deem to be unique to language

  • The current version of generative syntax, the Minimalist Program, proposes that the human capacity for language is genetically encoded in the computational system of

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Introduction

Following on from recent work in minimalist syntax and ethology, I explore the implications of assuming that the operation Label is the defining feature of the human computational system.

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