Language, Mind and Computation

This book investigates the connection between language, mind and computation in theoretical linguistics in particular and cognitive science in general. The relationship between grammar, mind and computation which buttresses much of mainstream linguistic theory is rarely questioned but forms the basis of many theoretical developments and empirical advances. Language, Mind and Computation challenges and critiques the basis of this relationship, attempting to demonstrate that natural language grammars cannot be both mental and computational if the nature of interpretation is unaccounted for. This ambitious book will be of interest to theoretical linguists, philosophers of language, psycholinguists and even computer scientists.

Prakash Mondal is a Researcher at Indian Institute of Technology Delhi. His published works include papers at the cross-section of language, cognition and computation in Biosemiotics, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Pragmatics and Cognition, Research in Computing Science, and Interdisciplinary Journal of Linguistics, among many others.

1. Introduction
2. Language and Linguistic Theory
3. How Language Relates to the Mind
4. How Language Relates to Computation
5. Putting it all together: The Relation between Language, Mind and Computation
6. The Emerging Connection
7. Linguistic Theory, Explanation and Linguistic Competence
8. Linguistic Theory, Learnability, Mind and Computation
9. Conclusion