Paul Gorrell, Gorrell Paul

Syntax and Parsing

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book examines the role of syntax in theories of sentence comprehension, and argues for a distinct processing component which is devoted to the recovery of syntactic structure and which utilizes the contrasting types of information found within a Government-Binding grammar. Paul Gorrell contrasts the primary relations (dominance and precedence) and secondary relations (case assignment, theta-role assignment, etc.) in a phrase-structure tree, and shows how this computational distinction of information types is reflected in the internal structure of the parser, which consists of two sub-components: a structure builder (responsible for creating nodes in a tree and positing primary relations between them), and a structure interpreter (responsible for analysing the tree in terms of secondary relations). This model can also predict garden-path phenomena in the processing of verb-final clauses.

Table of contents:
Acknowledgments; 1. Introduction; 2. Properties of the grammar; 3. Analyses of previous work; 4. Properties of the parser; 5. Modularity and structural determinism; 6. Conclusion; Reference; Index.

In this examination of the role of syntax in theories of sentence comprehension, Paul Gorrell argues for a distinct processing component which is devoted to the recovery of syntactic structure and which utilizes the contrasting types of information found within a Government-Binding grammar.

An examination of the role of syntax in theories of sentence comprehension.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 196
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Februar 2004
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 445g
• ISBN-13: 9780521452823
• ISBN-10: 0521452821
• Artikelnr.: 21299330

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
1. Introduction
2. Properties of the grammar
3. Analyses of previous work
4. Properties of the parser
5. Modularity and structural determinism
6. Conclusion
Reference
Index.