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Noam Chomsky’s syntactocentrism
Ray Jackendoff’s parallel architecture
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Ray Jackendoff understands that Noam Chomsky’s linguistic models distort the nature of language due to syntactocentrism. Coined by Jackendoff, the term “syntactocentrism” represents Chomsky’s assumption, from standard theory in Generative Grammar (Aspects of the Theory of Syntax) to Minimalist Program, that syntactic components are central while phonological and semantic components are merely interpretive. However, Jackendoff himself also states that since the 1970s, while denying that syntax plays a relevant role in grammar many researchers made a mistake opposite to Chomsky’s. Considering such a scenario, this article analyzes Ronald Langacker’s Cognitive Grammar, which claims semantics instead of syntax is a central linguistic component. The goal is to demonstrate how Langacker counteracts Chomsky’s syntactocentrism through “semanticocentrism”. By doing so he gravely misrepresents language structure, as detailed in this work.
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