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Deictic and propositional meaning - new perspectives on language in schizophrenia (2017)
Journal Article
Zimmerer, V., Watson, S., Turkington, D., Ferrier, N., & Hinzen, W. (2017). Deictic and propositional meaning - new perspectives on language in schizophrenia. Frontiers in Psychiatry, 8, Article 17. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2017.00017

Emerging linguistic evidence points at disordered language behavior as a defining characteristic of schizophrenia. In this article, we review this literature and demonstrate how a framework focusing on two core functions of language—reference and pro... Read More about Deictic and propositional meaning - new perspectives on language in schizophrenia.

Linguistic Evidence Against Predicativism (2016)
Journal Article
Hinzen, W. (2016). Linguistic Evidence Against Predicativism. Philosophy Compass, 11(10), 591-608. https://doi.org/10.1111/phc3.12348

The view that proper names are uniformly predicates (‘predicativism’) has recently gained prominence. I review linguistic evidence against it. Overall, the (cross-) linguistic evidence suggests that proper names function as predicates when they appea... Read More about Linguistic Evidence Against Predicativism.

Can delusions be understood linguistically? (2016)
Journal Article
Hinzen, W., Rosselló, J., & McKenna, P. (2016). Can delusions be understood linguistically?. Cognitive Neuropsychiatry, 21(4), 281-299. https://doi.org/10.1080/13546805.2016.1190703

Delusions are widely believed to reflect disturbed cognitive function, but the nature of this remains elusive. The “un-Cartesian” cognitive-linguistic hypothesis maintains (a) that there is no thought separate from language, that is, there is no dist... Read More about Can delusions be understood linguistically?.

The linguistic roots of Natural Pedagogy (2015)
Journal Article
Mattos, O., & Hinzen, W. (2015). The linguistic roots of Natural Pedagogy. Frontiers in Psychology, 6, Article 1424. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2015.01424

Natural pedagogy is a human-specific capacity that allows us to acquire cultural information from communication even before the emergence of the first words, encompassing three core elements: (i) a sensitivity to ostensive signals like eye contact th... Read More about The linguistic roots of Natural Pedagogy.

The linguistics of schizophrenia: thought disturbance as language pathology across positive symptoms (2015)
Journal Article
Hinzen, W., & Rosselló, J. (2015). The linguistics of schizophrenia: thought disturbance as language pathology across positive symptoms. Frontiers in Psychology, 6, Article 971. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00971

We hypothesize that linguistic (dis-)organization in the schizophrenic brain plays a more central role in the pathogenesis of this disease than commonly supposed. Against the standard view, that schizophrenia is a disturbance of thought or selfhood,... Read More about The linguistics of schizophrenia: thought disturbance as language pathology across positive symptoms.

The image of mind in the language of children with autism (2015)
Journal Article
Hinzen, W., Rosselló, J., Mattos, O., Schroeder, K., & Vila, E. (2015). The image of mind in the language of children with autism. Frontiers in Psychology, 6, Article 841. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00841

Nothing is Hidden: Contextualism and the Grammar-Meaning Interface (2015)
Journal Article
Hinzen, W. (2015). Nothing is Hidden: Contextualism and the Grammar-Meaning Interface. Mind and Language, 30(3), 259-291. https://doi.org/10.1111/mila.12080

A defining assumption in the debate on contextual influences on truth-conditional content is that such content is often incompletely determined by what is specified in linguistic form. The debate then turns on whether this is evidence for positing a... Read More about Nothing is Hidden: Contextualism and the Grammar-Meaning Interface.

On the rationality of Case (2014)
Journal Article
Hinzen, W. (2014). On the rationality of Case. Language Sciences, 46(Part B), 133-151. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.langsci.2014.03.003

Case marking has long resisted rationalization in terms of language-external systems of cognition, representing a classical illustration in the generative tradition for an apparently purely ‘formal’ or ‘syntactic’ aspect of grammatical organization.... Read More about On the rationality of Case.

The grammar of the essential indexical (2014)
Journal Article
Martin, T., & Hinzen, W. (2014). The grammar of the essential indexical. Lingua, 148, 95-117. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lingua.2014.05.016

Like proper names, demonstratives, and definite descriptions, pronouns have referential uses. These can be 'essentially indexical' in the sense that they cannot be replaced by non-pronominal forms of reference. Here we show that the grammar of pronou... Read More about The grammar of the essential indexical.

The Philosophy of Universal Grammar (2013)
Book
Hinzen, W., & Sheehan, M. (2013). The Philosophy of Universal Grammar. Oxford University Press

Narrow syntax and the Language of Thought (2013)
Journal Article
Hinzen, W. (2013). Narrow syntax and the Language of Thought. Philosophical Psychology, 26(1), 1-23. https://doi.org/10.1080/09515089.2011.627537

On the absence of X-within-X recursion in human grammar. (2012)
Journal Article
Arsenijevic, B., & Hinzen, W. (2012). On the absence of X-within-X recursion in human grammar. Linguistic Inquiry, 43(3), 423-440. https://doi.org/10.1162/ling_a_00095

Moving towards the edge. (2011)
Journal Article
Sheehan, M., & Hinzen, W. (2011). Moving towards the edge. Linguistic analysis, 37(3-4), 405-458

Hierarchy, Merge, and Truth (2009)
Book Chapter
Hinzen, W. (2009). Hierarchy, Merge, and Truth. In M. Piattelli-Palmarini, J. Uriagereka, & P. Salaburu (Eds.), Of minds and language : a dialogue with Noam Chomsky in the Basque country (123-141). Oxford University Press

Prospects for an explanatory theory of semantics (2008)
Journal Article
Hinzen, W. (2008). Prospects for an explanatory theory of semantics. Biolinguistics, 2(4), 348-363

Mind Design and Minimal Syntax (2006)
Book
Hinzen, W. (2006). Mind Design and Minimal Syntax. Oxford University Press

This book introduces generative grammar as an area of study and asks what it tells us about the human mind. Wolfram Hinzen lays the foundation for the unification of modern generative linguistics with the philosophies of mind and language. He introdu... Read More about Mind Design and Minimal Syntax.

Spencerism and the Causal Theory of Reference (2006)
Journal Article
Hinzen, W. (2006). Spencerism and the Causal Theory of Reference. Biology and Philosophy, 21(1), 71-94. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10539-005-0205-y

Spencer’s heritage, while almost a forgotten chapter in the history of biology, lives on in psychology and the philosophy of mind. I particularly discuss externalist views of meaning, on which meaning crucially depends on a notion of reference, and a... Read More about Spencerism and the Causal Theory of Reference.

Truth's Fabric (2003)
Journal Article
Hinzen, W. (2003). Truth's Fabric. Mind and Language, 18(2), 194-219. https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-0017.00221

To understand language, philosophers have related sentences and/or their uses to the concept of truth. I study an aspect of this relation by studying the actual structures that sentences expressing truth judgements have, an issue that I consider empi... Read More about Truth's Fabric.

The Pragmatics of Inferential Content (2001)
Journal Article
Hinzen, W. (2001). The Pragmatics of Inferential Content. Synthese, 128(1-2), 157-181. https://doi.org/10.1023/a%3A1010362521497

Carnap took the content of a particular sentence or set of sentences to consist in the set of the consequences of the sentence or set. This claim equates meaning with inferential role, but it restricts the inferences to deductive or explicative ones.... Read More about The Pragmatics of Inferential Content.