The research program we present here may suggest that the vocabulary and the distribution of sounds within words and morphemes are not the only domain in which languages show significant traces of their history and ancestral relations: the study of abstract and deeper mental objects, like syntactic parameters, discovered and investigated with the tools of formal cognitive science, may also provide crucial contributions to the goals and methods of historical inquiry and warrant the very possibility of formal syntax as an historical scientific paradigm.
On the prospects of parametric comparison / Guardiano, Cristina; G., Longobardi. - STAMPA. - 1:(2008), pp. 17-18. (Intervento presentato al convegno 18th international congress of linguists tenutosi a seoul nel July 21-26, 2008).
On the prospects of parametric comparison
GUARDIANO, Cristina;
2008
Abstract
The research program we present here may suggest that the vocabulary and the distribution of sounds within words and morphemes are not the only domain in which languages show significant traces of their history and ancestral relations: the study of abstract and deeper mental objects, like syntactic parameters, discovered and investigated with the tools of formal cognitive science, may also provide crucial contributions to the goals and methods of historical inquiry and warrant the very possibility of formal syntax as an historical scientific paradigm.
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