Peter Culicover

Grammar and Complexity

Language at the Intersection of Competence and Performance

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book combines ideas about the architecture of grammar and language acquisition, processing, and change to explain why languages show regular patterns when there is so much irregularity in their use and complexity when there is such regularity in linguistic phenomena. It offers new insights into the way language is produced and understood.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: OUP Oxford
• Seitenzahl: 328
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. März 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 170mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 568g
• ISBN-13: 9780199654604
• ISBN-10: 0199654603
• Artikelnr.: 52155365

Autorenporträt

Peter W. Culicover is Humanities Distinguished Professor in Linguistics and the founding Director of the Center for Cognitive Science at the Ohio State University. His publications include Formal Principles of Language Acquisition co-authored with Kenneth Wexler (MIT 1983), Principles and Parameters (OUP 1997), Syntactic Nuts (OUP 1999), Dynamical Syntax co-authored with Andrzej Nowak (OUP 2003), Simpler Syntax co-authored with Ray Jackendoff (OUP 2005), and Natural Language Syntax (OUP 2009).

Inhaltsangabe

Part I: Theoretical Background
1: Varieties of Grammatical Complexity
2: The Architecture of Constructions
Part II: English Constructions
3: English Relatives
4: Constructions and the Notion 'Possible Human Language'
Part III: Processing Complexity and Grammar
5: Reflexes of Processing Complexity
Part IV: Acquisition, Change, and Variation
6: Explaining Complexity: The learner in the network
7: Constructional Complexity and Change
8: Integrating Constructions, Complexity, and Change
References
Index