Language, Frogs and Savants: More Linguistic Problems Puzzles and Polemics

Dedication.
<p>Preface.</p>
<p>Introduction: What everyone should know about language and linguistics.</p>
<p>Part I. The meaning of Language .</p>
<p>Part II. Knowledge of Language.</p>
<p>Part III. Describing Knowledge of Language.</p>
<p>Part IV. Explanation in Language.</p>
<p>Part V. Linguistics as a Science .</p>
<p>Part VI. Beyond language: Pragmatics and the Language of Thought.</p>
<p>Part I Language in the Limit.</p>
<p>1. Savants.</p>
<p>2. Singing by the Dead.</p>
<p>3. Maganar Hannu.</p>
<p>4. Sneering at the Arts.</p>
<p>5. Babes and Sucklings.</p>
<p>6. Censored?.</p>
<p>7. Did you know that the Portuguese for Turkey is Peru?.</p>
<p>Part II Language in the Genes.</p>
<p>8. Obstinacy.</p>
<p>9. Backlash.</p>
<p>10. Is there a gene for linguists?.</p>
<p>11. Frogs, Parrots, Grooming, the Basal Ganglia and Language.</p>
<p>Part III Core Concerns.</p>
<p>12. Parametric Poverty.</p>
<p>13. Linguistics by Numbers.</p>
<p>14. Modules, Modals, Maths &amp; the Mind.</p>
<p>15. Nothing.</p>
<p>16. The.</p>
<p>17. Are gucks mentally represented?.</p>
<p>Postscript: A Refutation.</p>
<p>18. Wonder.</p>
<p>Glossary.</p>
<p>References.</p>
<p>Index.</p>