Structures in the mind : essays on language, music, and cognition in honor of Ray Jackendoff / Ida Toivonen, Piroska Csuri, and Emile van der Zee, editors.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction -- Simpler syntax and the mind : reflections on syntactic theory and cognitive science / Peter W. Culicover -- What makes conceptual semantics special? / Urpo Nikanne -- Semantic coordination without syntactic coordinators / Daniel Büring and Katharina Hartmann -- Out of phase : form-meaning mismatches in the prepositional phrase / Joost Zwarts -- The light verbs "say" and "say" / Jane Grimshaw -- Cognitive illusions : non-promotional passives and unspecified subject constructions / Joan Maling and Catherine O'Connor -- Agentive subjects and semantic case in Korean / Max Soowon Kim -- Lexical aspect and natural philosophy : how to untie them / Henk J. Verkuyl -- An evolving view of enriched semantic composition / María Mercedes Piñango and Edgar B. Zurif -- Height matters / Barbara Landau and Lila R. Gleitman -- Accessibility and linear order in phrasal conjuncts / Bhuvana Narasimhan, Cecily Jill Duffield, and Albert Kim -- Sleeping beauties / Willem J.M. Levelt -- Evolution of the speech code : higher-order symbolism and the grammatical Big Bang / Daniel Silverman -- Arbitrariness and iconicity in the syntax-semantics interface : an evolutionary perspective / Heike Wiese and Eva Wittenberg -- The biology and evolution of musical rhythm : an update / W. Tecumseh Fitch -- Neural substrates for linguistic and musical abilities : a neurolinguist's perspective / Yosef Grodzinsky -- Structure and ambiguity in a Schumann song / Fred Lerdahl -- The friar's fringe of consciousness / Daniel Dennett -- Climbing trees and seeing stars : combinatorial structure in comics and diverse domains / Neil Cohn.

The introduction includes appreciations of Ray Jackendoff by various authors.

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