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Syntactic Carpentry: An Emergentist Approach to Syntax

By William O'Grady

Book information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2005
ISBN
0805849599, 9780805849592, 9781410612571
LCC
P291 .O36 2005
Open Library ID
OL3307922M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
10 MB (10794767 bytes)
Edition
1
Pages
247\247
Library
mexmat
Time added
2009-07-20 03:45:11

Description

O'Grady (linguistics, U. of Hawaii at Manoa) advances the emergenist thesis to the difficulties of the syntax of natural language. He begins by examining language without grammar, showing that sentences are simply built in the quickest, most efficient manner possible, using the least memory. He resolves some of the issues within the processor theory by describing structure building as a computation system, then applies the theory to pronoun interpretation. The study continues with examination of the issues of control structures, "what, when, where" questions, the particular syntax of contraction, and the process of acquiring language through efficient processing and the learning of routines.

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