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Autore |
O'Grady William D (William Delaney), <1952-> |
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Titolo |
Syntactic carpentry [[electronic resource] ] : an emergentist approach to syntax / / William O'Grady |
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Pubbl/distr/stampa |
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Mahwah, N.J., : Lawrence Erlbaum, 2005 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (225 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Grammar, Comparative and general - Syntax |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 219-230) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Contents; Preface; 1. LANGUAGE WITHOUT GRAMMAR; 2. MORE ON STRUCTURE BUILDING; 3. PRONOUN INTERPRETATION; 4. CONTROL; 5. 'RAISING' STRUCTURES; 6. AGREEMENT; 7. WH QUESTIONS; 8. THE SYNTAX OF CONTRACTION; 9. SYNTAX AND PROCESSING; 10. LANGUAGE ACQUISITION; 11. CONCLUDING REMARKS; References; Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Syntactic Carpentry: An Emergentist Approach to Syntax presents a groundbreaking approach to the study of sentence formation. Building on the emergentist thesis that the structure and use of language is shaped by more basic, non-linguistic forces-rather than by an innate Universal Grammar-William O'Grady shows how the defining properties of various core syntactic phenomena (phrase structure, co-reference, control, agreement, contraction, and extraction) follow from the operation of a linear, efficiency-driven processor. This in turn leads to a compelling new view of sentence formation t |
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