Young D A
Med Hypotheses. 1983 Apr;10(4):385-405. doi: 10.1016/0306-9877(83)90005-1.
In a previous paper (1), a new computer system for the nonverbal representation of word and sentence meaning was described as the basis for an hypothesis that verbal meaning may occur in the brain in the form of interassociated modal percepts or their neuronal correlates. The discussion was principally on the semantics of the system, but reference was made to a complementary syntactic technique that is also based upon the use of modal codes. (See Table 1 for list of the modalities). In describing here the fundamentals of that syntactic system, it is suggested that, as with modal meaning, the principles of interactive modal syntax might also be usefully applied to the understanding of the cerebral mechanisms of some language processes and their dysfunctions. In particular, the hypothesis is proposed that the mental representation of syntax is fundamentally nonverbal, and that syntax and grammar, far from being different from semantics are based on interassociated modal representations of meaning and use.
在之前的一篇论文（1）中，描述了一种用于单词和句子意义非语言表征的新计算机系统，以此作为一种假说的基础，即言语意义可能以相互关联的模态感知或其神经元关联物的形式在大脑中出现。讨论主要围绕该系统的语义，但也提到了一种同样基于模态代码使用的互补句法技术。（模态列表见表1）。在此描述该句法系统的基本原理时，有人提出，与模态意义一样，交互式模态句法的原理也可能有助于理解某些语言过程及其功能障碍的大脑机制。特别是，有人提出假说，即句法的心理表征从根本上说是非语言的，而且句法和语法远非与语义不同，而是基于意义和用法的相互关联的模态表征。
