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Logic as grammar
"A Bradford book."How is the meaning of natural language interpreted? Taking as its point of departure the logical problem of natural language acquisition, this book elaborates a theory of meaning based on syntactical rather than semantical processes. Hornstein argues that the traditional neoFregean approach taken by Davidson, Barwise and Perry, and Montague, among others--an approach that make…
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- 0262081377
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- 1 online resource (x, 176 pages)
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Linearization of chains and sideward movement
Revision of the author's thesis (Ph. D.)--Universidade Estadual de Campinas, 2001.This highly original monograph treats movement operations within the Minimalist Program. Jairo Nunes argues that traces are not grammatical primitives and that their properties follow from deeper features of the system, and, in particular, that the phonetic realization of traces is determined by linearization comp…
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- 9780262280792
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- 1 online resource (xiv, 196 pages) :illustrations.
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Methods for assessing children's syntax
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- 9780262279413
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- 1 online resource (xviii, 390 pages).
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A Prosodic Model of Sign Language Phonology.
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- 9780262269261
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- 1 online resource (396 pages).
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Prolegomenon to a theory of argument structure
This work is the culmination of an eighteen-year collaboration between Ken Hale and Samuel Jay Keyser on the study of the syntax of lexical items. It examines the hypothesis that the behavior of lexical items may be explained in terms of a very small number of very simple principles. In particular, a lexical item is assumed to project a syntactic configuration defined over just two relations, c…
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- 9780262274722
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- 1 online resource (x, 281 pages) :illustrations.
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The prism of grammar :how child language illuminates humanism
"A Bradford book."Exploring the creativity of mind through children's language: how the tiniest utterances can illustrate the simple but abstract principles behind modern grammar--and reveal the innate structures of the mind.Every sentence we hear is instantly analyzed by an inner grammar; just as a prism refracts a beam of light, grammar divides a stream of sound, linking diverse strings of in…
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- 9780262257794
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- 1 online resource (xviii, 355 pages) :illustrations
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Sentence comprehension :the integration of rules and habits
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- 9780262316156
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- 1 online resource (x, 445 pages)
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Sensory Exotica :A World Beyond Human Experience.
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- 9780262275866
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- 1 online resource (344 pages)
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Semantics, tense, and time :an essay in the metaphysics of natural language
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- 0585101175
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Semantics and syntax in lexical functional grammar :the resource logic approach
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- 9780262271172
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- 1 online resource (x, 399 pages).
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