Language and number : the emergence of a cognitive system

목차 (Table of Contents)

• CONTENTS
• Preface = ⅶ
• Acknowledgements = xii
• 1. The Object of Study = 1
• 1.1 Interest in Numerals = 1
• 1.2 Language, Psychologism, and the Nature of Numbers = 7
• 1.3 The Study of Language Systems = 15
• 2. Explaining Linguistic Universals = 36
• 2.1 Chomsky's Account of Universals and the Strategy of Generative Grammar = 36
• 2.2 Conflicting Generalizations, Complexity, and Irregularity = 44
• 2.3 Some Universal Irregularities = 49
• 2.4 Explaining Non-absolute Universals = 61
• 2.5 Invention and the Non-universality of Numeral Systems = 68
• 2.6 Explaining the Universals Evolutionarily = 78
• 3. A Continuous Sequence of Counting Words = 86
• 3.1 Continuity of the Basic Lexical Sequence = 86
• 3.2 The Referential／Pragmatic Hypothesis = 90
• 3.3 The Conceptual／Verbal Hypothesis = 95
• 3.4 The Ritual Hypothesis = 102
• 3.5 Synthesis - a Pluralist Account = 110
• 3.6 The Joint Acquisition of Numerals and Number = 121
• 4. Numbers: the Meanings of Numerals = 132
• 4.1 Frege's Boots: Numbers and Collections = 132
• 4.2 Numerals as Collection-denoting Expressions = 141
• 4.3 'Abstract' Interpretation of Bare Numerals = 158
• 4.4 Ordinals = 167
• 4.5 Knowledge of Number = 173
• 5. Syntactic Integration of Counting Words = 187
• 5.1 Counting Words Become Adjectives or Nouns = 187
• 5.2 Semantic Motivation of Adjectival Categorization = 197
• 5.3 Collections as Objects, Numerals as Nouns, and Multiplication = 207
• 5.4 Numeral Classifier Constructions = 214
• 5.5 Adjective-Numeral Word Order = 218
• 5.6 Addition and Conjunction = 226
• 6. Standardization of Complex Numerals to a Fixed Base = 239
• 6.1 Summary of Constructions So Far = 239
• 6.2 The Packing Strategy - a Universal Constraint on Complex Numerals = 242
• 6.3 The Packing Strategy is Not Innate = 252
• 6.4 Standardization of Numerals - Semantic／PragmaticMotivation = 262
• 6.5 Evolution of a Standardized Base by Social Negotiation = 274
• 6.6 Computer Simulations = 285
• 7. Denouement and Prospect = 302
• References = 307
• Index = 318