Linguists have historically favored symbolic, rule-based models to explain the human language faculty. Such models typically possess clear explanatory clarity and are well able to handle the apparently recursive structure of natural sentences. In fact, they tend to be too powerful in this respect and ad hoc external constraints and manipulations are often necessary to limit their performance to...

Linguists have historically favored symbolic, rule-based models to explain the human language faculty. Such models typically possess clear explanatory clarity and are well able to handle the apparently recursive structure of natural sentences. In fact, they tend to be too powerful in this respect and ad hoc external constraints and manipulations are often necessary to limit their performance to...

Research on the brain basis of speech and language faces theoretical and empirical challenges. Most current research, dominated by imaging, deficit-lesion, and electrophysiological techniques, seeks to identify regions that underpin aspects of language processing such as phonology, syntax, or semantics. The emphasis lies on localization and spatial characterization of function. The first part o...

The structuralist heritage in linguistics continues to obscure the essential properties of natural language as an empirical phenomenon. It is argued that the new framework of autopoiesis possesses a greater explanatory power, as it assumes the connotational nature of language. The key notions of representation, sign and signification, interpretation, intentionality and communication, and recipr...

Human language is unique among the communication systems of the natural world: it is socially learned and, as a consequence of its recursively compositional structure, offers open-ended communicative potential. The structure of this communication system can be explained as a consequence of the evolution of the human biological capacity for language or the cultural evolution of language itself. ...

there are several reasons for the problems of translating russian works to persian. in the present article, stationmaster, a novel written by alexander pushkin, is investigated with emphasis on issues of translating the work from an intermediate language. in the discussion section of the paper, the definitions and different theories of literary translation and the identification of the characte...

This paper reports the results of the WordNet.PTglobal project, an extension of WordNet.PT to all Portuguese varieties. Profiting from a theoretical model of high level explanatory adequacy and from a convenient and flexible development tool, WordNet.PTglobal achieves a rich and multipurpose lexical resource, suitable for contrastive studies and for a vast range of language-based applications c...