Efficiency and complexity in grammars [[electronic resource] /] / John A. Hawkins

• Autore: Hawkins John A
• Pubblicazione: Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2004
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (322 p.)
• Disciplina: 415
• Soggetto topico: Language and languages - Grammars; Linguistics
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Note generali: Series statement from jacket.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [277]-293) and indexes.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; Preface; Abbreviations; 1 Introduction; 1.1 Performance-grammar correspondences: a hypothesis; 1.2 Predictions of the PGCH; 1.3 Efficiency and complexity; 1.4 Issues of explanation; 1.5 The challenge of multiple preferences; 2 Linguistic Forms, Properties, and Efficient Signaling; 2.1 Forms and properties; 2.2 Property assignments in combinatorial and dependency relations; 2.3 Efficiency and complexity in form-property signaling; 3 Defining the Efficiency Principles and their Predictions; 3.1 Minimize Domains (MiD); 3.2 Minimize Forms (MiF); 3.2.1 The logic of MiF ; 3.2.2 Form minimization predictions3.2.3 Maximize the ease of processing enrichments; 3.3 Maximize On-line Processing (MaOP); 3.3.1 Unassignments and misassignments; 3.3.2 The quantitative metric; 3.3.3 Predictions for performance and grammars; 4 More on Form Minimization; 4.1 Greenberg's markedness hierarchies; 4.2 Markedness hierarchies in diachrony; 4.2.1 Morphological inventory predictions; 4.2.2 Declining distinctions predictions; 4.3 Grammaticalization and processing; 4.4 The grammaticalization of definiteness marking; 4.4.1 Semantic/pragmatic extensions; 4.4.2 Syntactic extensions ; 4.5 Processing enrichments through structural parallelism4.6 The principle of conventionalized dependency; 5 Adjacency Effects Within Phrases; 5.1 EIC preferences for adjacency in performance; 5.1.1 EIC in head-initial structures; 5.1.2 EIC in head-final structures; 5.2 Multiple preferences for adjacency in performance; 5.2.1 Multiple preferences in English; 5.2.2 Multiple preferences in Japanese; 5.2.3 Total domain differentials; 5.3 EIC preferences for adjacency in grammars; 5.3.1 The Greenbergian correlations; 5.3.2 Other ordering universals ; 5.4 Multiple preferences for adjacency in grammars5.5 Competitions between domains and phrases; 5.5.1 Relative clause extrapositions in German; 6 Minimal Forms in Complements/Adjuncts and Proximity; 6.1 Minimal formal marking in performance; 6.1.1 Wh, that/zero relativizers; 6.1.2 Other alternations; 6.2 Minimal formal marking in grammars; 6.3 Morphological typology and Sapir's 'drift'; 7 Relative Clause and Wh-movement Universals; 7.1 The grammar and processing of filler-gap dependencies; 7.2 The Keenan-Comrie Accessibility Hierarchy; 7.2.1 Performance support for the FGD complexity ranking ; 7.2.2 Grammatical support for the FGD complexity ranking7.3 Wh-fronting and basic word order; 7.4 Other complexity hierarchies; 7.4.1 A clause-embedding hierarchy; 7.4.2 Reduce additional syntactic processing; 7.4.3 Reduce additional semantic processing; 7.5 MaOP effects; 7.5.1 Fillers First; 7.5.2 Relative clause ordering asymmetries; 7.5.3 Grammatical conventions that facilitate filler-gap processing; 7.6 That-trace in English and processing enrichments in Japanese; 8 Symmetries, Asymmetric Dependencies, and Earliness Effects; 8.1 Some cross-linguistic generalizations; 8.1.1 Symmetries ; 8.1.2 Asymmetries
• Sommario/riassunto: Jack Hawkins has long been a trail-blazer in the attempt to reconcile the results of formal and functional linguistics. Efficiency and Complexity in Grammars charts new territory in this domain. The book argues persuasively that a small number of performance-based principles combine to account for many grammatical constraints proposed by formal linguists and also explain the origins of numerous typological generalizations discovered by functionalists. - Frederick J. Newmeyer, University of Washington;Efficiency and Complexity in Grammars is a landmark work, setting a new standard in the study
• Titolo autorizzato: Efficiency and complexity in grammars
• ISBN: 0-19-151442-X; 1-280-84677-1; 1-4294-6934-X; 0-19-925268-8
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910465623703321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Oxford linguistics.