By Peter W. Culicover,Ray Jackendoff
ISBN-10: 0199271089
ISBN-13: 9780199271085
ISBN-10: 0199271097
ISBN-13: 9780199271092
In the earlier 4 many years, theories of syntactic constitution became extra summary, and syntactic derivations became ever extra advanced. Peter Culicover and Ray Jackendoff hint this improvement in the course of the heritage of latest syntactic conception, exhibiting how a lot it's been pushed through theory-internal instead of empirical concerns. They advance another that's conscious of linguistic, cognitive, computational, and organic concerns.
At the center of this substitute is the easier Syntax speculation: the main explanatory syntactic concept is one who imputes the minimal constitution essential to mediate among phonology and that means. A outcome of this speculation is a miles richer mapping among syntax and semantics than is mostly assumed. via concrete analyses of diverse grammatical phenomena, a few good studied and a few new, the authors exhibit the empirical and conceptual superiority of the easier Syntax approach.
Simpler Syntax is addressed to linguists of all persuasions. it is going to even be of important curiosity to these keen on language in psychology, human biology, evolution, computational technology, and synthetic intellige
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