Symmetry Breaking and Symmetry Restoration

This book treats the faculty of language as part of the Universe subject to physical laws. It presents phenomena from syntax and semantics in the interdisciplinary context. The author analyses the origin of syntax and semantics as autonomous modules (asymmetry), even though they display parallelisms (symmetry). He presents linguistic phenomena in the interdisciplinary context where spontaneous symmetry breaking has a central explanatory role, as it is the case in the physical world.

Autorentext

Szymon J. Napierala has studied English and Psychology and received his doctorate degree in English at the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan, Poland.

Inhalt

Symmetry - Asymmetry - Antisymmetry - Symmetry breaking - Spontaneous symmetry breaking - Symmetry restoration - Coordination - Subordination - Parataxis - Adjunction - Merge - Concatenate - Syntactic categories - Reprojection - Minimalist Program - Recursion protolanguage - Language faculty - Dissymetry - Syntax - Semantics