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Syntactic Carpentry
An Emergentist Approach to Syntax
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Syntactic Carpentry: An Emergentist Approach to Syntax presents a groundbreaking approach to the study of sentence formation. Building on the emergentist thesis that the structure and use of language is shaped by more basic, non-linguistic forces—rather than by an innate Universal Grammar—William O'Grady shows how the defining properties of various core syntactic phenomena (phrase structure, co-reference, control, agreement, contraction, and extraction) follow from the operation of a linear, efficiency-driven processor. This in turn leads to a compelling new view of sentence formation that subsumes syntactic theory into the theory of sentence processing, eliminating grammar in the traditional sense from the study of the language faculty. With this text, O'Grady advances a growing body of literature on emergentist approaches to language, and situates this work in a broader picture that also includes attention to key issues in the study of language acquisition, psycholinguistics, and agrammaticism.
This book constitutes essential reading for anyone interested in syntax and its place in the larger enterprise of cognitive science.
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Taylor and Francis; February 2005
248 pages; ISBN 9781135612726
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248 pages; ISBN 9781135612726
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Subject categories
- Academic > Languages and Linguistics > Philology. Linguistics > Language. Linguistic theory. Comparative grammar > Comparative grammar
- Academic > Languages and Linguistics > Philology. Linguistics > General
- Psychology & Psychiatry > Cognitive Psychology
- Psychology & Psychiatry > Neuropsychology
- Education > Bilingual Education
- Language Arts & Disciplines > Linguistics
- Language Arts & Disciplines > Grammar
ISBNs
1410612570
9780805849592
9781135612726
9781135612733
9781410612571

