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Ray Jackendoff
Seth Merrin Professor of Philosophy, Co-Director,
Center for
Cognitive Studies
Natural Language Semantics, Syntax, the Lexicon, the Language
Faculty, Music Cognition, Social Cognition, Consciousness
Contact Info:
Department of Philosophy
Miner Hall, room 115
Tufts University
Medford, MA 02155
Tel: 617-627-4348
Fax: 617-484-0164
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Biography
Ray Jackendoff grew up in Chicago and Philadelphia. He majored in
mathematics at Swarthmore College, where he discovered he was not
cut out to be a mathematician and, taking a big chance, applied to
graduate schools in linguistics. He ended up going to MIT, where he
studied under Noam Chomsky and Morris Halle, and was a reluctant
participant in the "Linguistics Wars" of the late 1960s. He taught
at Brandeis from 1971 to 2005, and joined the Tufts faculty in 2005
as Co-Director of the Center for Cognitive Studies.
His central research is on the semantics of natural language, how it
relates to human conceptualization, and how it is expressed
linguistically. In the course of working out the foundations for
this enterprise, he has been drawn into research on visual
cognition, music cognition, social cognition, consciousness, and the
evolution of the language capacity, as well as more traditional
issues for linguists such as syntax and the lexicon.
In another of his lives, Jackendoff is a classical clarinetist,
having performed as soloist with the Boston Pops and several other
Boston area orchestras. He has appeared frequently in recital and
chamber music programs, and was for 20 years principal clarinet of
the Civic Symphony Orchestra of Boston. With pianist Valentina
Sandu-Dediu, he has recorded a CD, Romanian Music for Clarinet
and Piano. Most Recent Books
- Meaning and the Lexicon: The Parallel Architecture 1975-2010, Oxford University Press, 2010
- Language, Consciousness, Culture: Essays on Mental Structure,
MIT Press, 2007
- Simpler Syntax (with Peter W. Culicover), Oxford University Press, 2005
- Foundations of Language,
Oxford University Press,
2002
Publications
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Recent and forthcoming papers
Empirical articles
-
Compounding in the Parallel Architecture and Conceptual Semantics,
in Rochelle Lieber and Pavol Štekauer (eds.),The Oxford Handbook of Compounding, 105-28. Oxford University Press, 2009.
(Longer version in Meaning and the Lexicon)
- The peculiar logic of value,
in Journal of Cognition and Culture 6, 375-407.
- Construction after construction and its theoretical challenges,
in Language 84, no. 1, 8-28 (2008).
- English particle constructions, the lexicon, and the autonomy of syntax,
in Nicole Dehe, Ray Jackendoff, Andrew McIntyre, and Silke Urban (eds.), Verb-Particle Explorations, Mouton de Gruyter, 2002
- Focus
reduplication in English (the salad-salad paper), with Jila Ghomeshi,
Nicole Rosen, and Kevin Russell, in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 22, 307-57 (2004).
- Corpus of examples of focus reduplication construction
- The English resultative as a family of
constructions, with Adele Goldberg, in Language 80, 532-68 (2004).
Survey and review articles
- Parallels and Non-Parallels between Language and Music, Music Perception 26, 195-204.
- Alternative minimalist visions of language,
CLS 41: The Panels, 189-226.
- Linguistics in cognitive science: The state
of the art, in The Linguistic Review 24, 347-401 (2007).
- Language, to appear in Cambridge Handbook to Cognitive Science.
- Conceptual Semantics, to appear in Semantics:
An International Handbook of Natural Language Meaning, deGruyter.
- The Parallel Architecture and its Place in Cognitive Science, to
appear in Oxford Handbook of Linguistic Analysis and in Morphology Multi-Dimensional.
- Your theory of language evolution depends on your theory of language.
- A Parallel Architecture perspective on language
processing, in Brain Research, 1146 (2007), pp. 2-22.
- The faculty of language: What’s special about it? With Steven Pinker, Cognition 95, 201-236 (2005).
- The
Nature of the Language Faculty and its Implications for Evolution of Language,(Reply to Fitch, Hauser, & Chomsky) with Steven Pinker, Cognition 97, 211-25 (2005).
- The capacity for music: What is it, and what’s special about it? With Fred Lerdahl, in Cognition 100, 33-72 (2006).
- How did language begin?
Pamphlet in Linguistic Society of America FAQ series
- The Simpler Syntax Hypothesis
With Peter Culicover, inTrends in Cognitive Sciences 10, 413-18.
- A whole lot of challenges for linguistics, in
Journal of English Linguistics 35, 253-62.
- The natural logic of morals and of laws, submitted to
Brooklyn Law Review
Recordings
Romanian Music for clarinet and piano, with Valentina Sandu-Dediu, piano.
Music of Martian Negrea, Stefan Niculescu, Dan Dediu, and Constantin
Silvestri.
Albany Records, 2003.
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