Grammar & Complexity
Language at the Intersection of Competence and Performance
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Product details:
- Edition number 01
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 28 March 2013
- ISBN 9780199654604
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages328 pages
- Size 243x171x19 mm
- Weight 574 g
- Language English
- Illustrations Figures, Line Drawings 0
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Short description:
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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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 the real-time processes involved in the construction of meanings in linguistic expressions.
Mainstream syntactic theory has focused largely on regularities within and across languages, relegating to the periphery exceptional and idiosyncratic phenomena. But, the author argues, a languages irregular and unique features offer fundamental insights into the nature of language, how it changes, and how it is produced and understood.
Peter Culicover's new book offers a pertinent and original contribution to key current debates in linguistic theory. It will interest scholars and advanced students of linguists of all theoretical persuasions.
Table of Contents:
Part I: Theoretical Background
Varieties of Grammatical Complexity
The Architecture of Constructions
Part II: English Constructions
English Relatives
Constructions and the Notion 'Possible Human Language'
Part III: Processing Complexity and Grammar
Reflexes of Processing Complexity
Part IV: Acquisition, Change, and Variation
Explaining Complexity: The learner in the network
Constructional Complexity and Change
Integrating Constructions, Complexity, and Change
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