Efficiency and Complexity in Grammars

Erscheinungsjahr 2004
ISBN: 978-0-19-925268-8
Verlag: OUP Oxford

Buch, Englisch, 328 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 652 g

1. Introduction; 2. Linguistics Forms, Properties and Efficient Signaling; 3. Defining the Efficiency Principles and their Predictions; 4. More on Form Minimization; 5. Adjacency Effects Within Phrases; 6. Minimal Forms in complements/Adjuncts and Proximity; 7. Relative Clause and Wh-movement Universals; 8. Symmetries, Asymmetric Dependencies and Earliness Effects; 9. Conclusions; Abbreviations; References; Index of Authors; Index of Languages; Subject Index

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hawkins, John A.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Grammatik, Syntax, Morphologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- 1: Introduction

- 2: Linguistics Forms, Properties and Efficient Signaling

- 3: Defining the Efficiency Principles and their Predictions

- 4: More on Form Minimization

- 5: Adjacency Effects Within Phrases

- 6: Minimal Forms in complements/Adjuncts and Proximity

- 7: Relative Clause and Wh-movement Universals

- 8: Symmetries, Asymmetric Dependencies and Earliness Effects

- 9: Conclusions

- Abbreviations

- References

- Index of Authors

- Index of Languages

- Subject Index

Über Autor(innen)

John A. Hawkins completed his PhD at Cambridge University in 1975. He has held positions at the University of Essex, the Max-Planck-Institute for Psycholinguistics, and the University of Southern California. In 2003 he was elected to a chair at Cambridge. His visiting appointments include UCLA, Berkeley, Potsdam, and the Max-Planck-Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. He has research interests in linguistics and cognitive science and has published books and articles on typology and universals, syntax and grammatical theory, and psycholinguistics and historical linguistics. Recently, his particular focus has been the relationship between principles of language use and grammars. His books include A Performance Theory of Order and Constituency (Cambridge, 1994); A Comparative Typology of English and German (Austin, 1986) Word Order Universals (New York, 1983), Definiteness, and Indefiniteness: A Study in Reference and Grammaticality Prediction (London, 1978).