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Grammar and Complexity Language at the Intersection of Competence and Performance

ISBN: 9780199654604 | 0199654603
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Pub. Date: 5/19/2013

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SummaryTable of ContentsAuthor Biography
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 so much complexity when there is such regularity in linguistic phenomena. Peter Culicover argues that the structure of language can be understood and explained in terms of two kinds of complexity: firstly that of the correspondence between form and meaning; secondly in thereal-time processes involved in the construction of meanings in lingui... MORE

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
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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).



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