Syntactic carpentry [[electronic resource] ] : an emergentist approach to syntax / / William O'Grady
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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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| Pubblicazione: | Mahwah, N.J., : Lawrence Erlbaum, 2005 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (225 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 415 |
| Soggetto topico: | Grammar, Comparative and general - Syntax |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 219-230) and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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 |
| Sommario/riassunto: | 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 |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Syntactic carpentry |
| ISBN: | 1-4106-1257-0 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910823972603321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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