I provide a critical survey of the role that semantics took in the several models of generative
grammar, since the 1950s until the Minimalist Program. I distinguish four different periods. In …

Psychoanalysis and the Academy: Working Across Boundaries with Linguistics, Cognitive/Developmental
Psychology, and Philosophy of Mind - Anne Erreich, 2018 Skip to main content Intended for …

Heintz & Scott-Phillips propose that the partner choice ecology of our ancestors required
Gricean cognitive pragmatics for reputation management, which caused a tendency toward …

The problem of generating generally capable agents is an important frontier in artificial
intelligence (AI) research. Such agents may demonstrate open-ended, versatile, and diverse …

While the ability of recursion is considered universally available, there are considerable
cross-and with-linguistic differences regarding the rules for recursive embedding, which …

The paper explores a view on language that is in line with the Strong Minimalist Thesis and
that derives an evolutionary scenario predicting language variation in time and space. A …

While the metarepresentational structure of ostensive communication may explain the
unleashing of human expression, it neither explains the open-endedness of the thoughts …

We propose that feature bundles in syntactic computations coactivate subset vocabulary
items in content-based access. Thus, in French, an inflectional node for the future tense …

Heintz and Scott-Phillips provide a useful synthesis for constructing a bridge between work
by both cognitive scientists and evolutionary biologists studying the diversity of human …

Rule-like behaviour is found throughout human language, provoking a number of apparently
conflicting explanations. This paper frames the topic in terms of Tinbergen's four questions …