Explaining Syntax

Representations, Structures, and Computation
Erscheinungsjahr 2013
ISBN: 978-0-19-966023-0
Verlag: OUP Oxford

Buch, Englisch, 396 Seiten, Format (B × H): 175 mm x 250 mm, Gewicht: 860 g

This book brings together many of Peter Culicover's most significant observations on the nature of syntax and its place within the architecture of human language. Over four decades he has sought to understand the cognitive foundations of linguistic theory and the place of syntactic theory in explaining how language works. This has led him to specific proposals regarding the proper scope of syntactic theory and to a re-examination of the empirical basis of syntactic analyses, which reflect judgements reflecting not only linguistic competence but the complexity of the computations involved in acquiring and using language.

After a brief a retrospective the author opens the book with the Simpler Syntax Hypothesis, an article written with Ray Jackendoff, that proposes significant restrictions on the scope of the syntactic component of the grammar. The work is then divided into parts concerned broadly with representations, structures, and computation. The chapters are provided with contextual headnotes and footnote references to subsequent work, but are otherwise printed essentially as they first appeared.

Peter Culicover's lively and original perspectives on syntax and grammar will appeal to all theoretical linguists and their advanced students.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Culicover, Peter W

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Grammatik, Syntax, Morphologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Spracherwerb, Sprachentwicklung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- 1: Prologue: The Simpler Syntax Hypothesis (2006)

- Part I: Representations

- 2: OM-sentences: On the derivation of sentences with systematically unspecifiable interpretations (1972)

- 3: On the Coherence of Syntactic Descriptions (1973)

- 4: Stress and Focus in English (1983)

- 5: Control, PRO, and the Projection Principle (1992)

- 6: Negative Curiosities (1982)

- 7: Deriving Dependent Right Adjuncts in English (1997)

- 8: Topicalization, Inversion, and Complementizers in English (1992)

- 9: The Adverb Effect: Evidence against ECP accounts of the that-t effect (1992)

- 10: Stylistic Inversion in English: A reconsideration (2001)

- 11: A Reconsideration of Dative Movements (1972)

- 12: markedness, Antisymmetry, and complexity of Constructions (2003)

- 13: Morphological Complexity Outside of Universal Grammar (1998)

- References

- Index

Über Autor(innen)

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), Natural Language Syntax (OUP 2009), and Grammar and Complexity (OUP 2012).