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Uttering Trees
Here, Richards investigates the conditions imposed upon syntax by the need to create syntactic objects that can be interpreted by phonology - that is, objects that can be pronounced.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262282369
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- 1 online resource (x, 233 pages) :illustrations.
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Where Does Binding Theory Apply?
An exploration of the architecture of the grammar and nature of the lexical/functional split, this text reveals a relationship of greater subtlety and importance than is generally assumed.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262255332
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- 1 online resource (xxiii, 99 pages) :illustrations.
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Locality in Minimalist Syntax
Providing a reanalysis of minimalist syntax, Thomas Stroik considers the optimal design properties for human language.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262255349
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- 1 online resource (x, 149 pages).
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Arguments as Relations
Bowers proposes a radically new approach to argument structure that has the potential to unify data from a wide range of different language types in terms of a simple and universal syntactic structure.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262289252
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- 1 online resource (xii, 239 pages) :illustrations.
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Why Agree? Why Move?: Unifying Agreement-Based and Discourse-Configurational …
An argument that not only do movement and agreement occur in every language, they also work in tandem to imbue natural language with enormous expressive power. An unusual property of human language is the existence of movement operations. Modern syntactic theory from its inception has dealt with the puzzle of why movement should occur. In this monograph, Shigeru Miyagawa combines this question …
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- 9780262259071
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- 1 online resource (xiv, 182 pages) :illustrations.
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The generative lexicon
The Generative Lexicon presents a novel and exciting theory of lexical semantics that addresses the problem of the "multiplicity of word meaning"; that is, how we are able to give an infinite number of senses to words with finite means. The first formally elaborated theory of a generative approach to word meaning, it lays the foundation for an implemented computational treatment of word meaning…
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- 9780262281966
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- 1 online resource (xii, 298 pages).
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The Nature of the Word: Studies in Honor of Paul Kiparsky
Paul Kiparksy's work in linguistics has been wide-ranging and fundamental. His contributions have influenced virtually every field of contemporary linguistics, from generative phonology to poetic theory. This is a collection of essays by his colleagues and students.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262274890
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- 1 online resource (xvi, 750 pages) :illustrations.
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The Boundaries of Babel: The Brain and the Enigma of Impossible Languages
This text is an exploration of what research at the intersection of contemporary theoretical linguistics and the cognitive neurosciences can reveal about the constraints on the apparently chaotic variation in human languages.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262280204
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- 1 online resource (xvi, 257 pages) :illustrations.
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Bilingual competence and bilingual proficiency in child development
In this volume, Norbert Francis examines the development of bilingual proficiency and the different kinds of competence that come together in making up its component parts.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262298384
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- 1 online resource (xvi, 394 pages)
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The discovery of spoken language
"A Bradford book."The Discovery of Spoken Language marks one of the first efforts to integrate the field of infant speech perception research into the general study of language acquisition. It fills in a key part of the acquisition story by providing an extensive review of research on the acquisition of language during the first year of life, focusing primarily on how normally developing infant…
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- 1 online resource (xii, 314 pages).
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