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Syntax in the treetops
"A syntactic analysis of and solution to the semantic problem: how can speakers convey the same meaning using different speech acts?"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262369091
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- 1 online resource.
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A selectional theory of adjunct control
"A new theory on adjunct control from a leading linguistics researcher"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 026236610X
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- 1 online resource.
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Born to parse :how children select their languages
"This book represents a new approach to language acquisition and to variable properties in language. By taking a novel approach in allowing for an account of the acquisition of variable properties of language and a biologically plausible treatment of language variation, Lightfoot argues against the use of binary parameters, for the centrality of parsing in language acquisition, and for the "ope…
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- 0262358867
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- 1 online resource.
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Merge :binarity in (multidominant) syntax
"An argument for a novel binarity constraint on merge, preventing syntactic movement from relating more than two distinct positions at one time"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262361262
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- 1 online resource.
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Structure :concepts, consequences, interactions
"A sober, but polemical text on how the linguistics and language field has lost sight of the fact that syntactic structure remains crucial"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262371995
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Locality in vowel harmony
This work offers phonologists new evidence that viewing vowel harmony through the lens of relativized minimality has the potential to unify different levels of linguistic representation and different domains of empirical inquiry in a unified framework.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262280570
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- 1 online resource (xii, 244 pages) :illustrations, maps.
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Learnability and cognition :the acquisition of argument structure
"A Bradford book."OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262281614
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- 1 online resource (xiv, 411 pages) :illustrations.
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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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