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OverviewThis book combines ideas about the architecture of grammar and language acquisition, processing, and change to explain why languages show regular patterns when there is so much irregularity in their use and so much complexity when there is such regularity in linguistic phenomena. Peter Culicover argues that the structure of language can be understood and explained in terms of two kinds of complexity: firstly that of the correspondence between form and meaning; secondly in the real-time processes involved in the construction of meanings in linguistic expressions. Mainstream syntactic theory has focused largely on regularities within and across languages, relegating to the periphery exceptional and idiosyncratic phenomena. But, the author argues, a languages irregular and unique features offer fundamental insights into the nature of language, how it changes, and how it is produced and understood. Peter Culicover's new book offers a pertinent and original contribution to key current debates in linguistic theory. It will interest scholars and advanced students of linguists of all theoretical persuasions. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Peter W. Culicover (Linguistics Department, The Ohio State University)Publisher: Oxford University Press Imprint: Oxford University Press Dimensions: Width: 17.60cm , Height: 2.60cm , Length: 25.30cm Weight: 0.740kg ISBN: 9780199654598ISBN 10: 019965459 Pages: 336 Publication Date: 04 April 2013 Audience: College/higher education , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly , Undergraduate Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order  Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of ContentsPart I: Theoretical Background 1: Varieties of Grammatical Complexity 2: The Architecture of Constructions Part II: English Constructions 3: English Relatives 4: Constructions and the Notion 'Possible Human Language' Part III: Processing Complexity and Grammar 5: Reflexes of Processing Complexity Part IV: Acquisition, Change, and Variation 6: Explaining Complexity: The learner in the network 7: Constructional Complexity and Change 8: Integrating Constructions, Complexity, and Change References IndexReviewsAuthor InformationPeter W. Culicover is Humanities Distinguished Professor in Linguistics and the founding Director of the Center for Cognitive Science at the Ohio State University. His publications include Formal Principles of Language Acquisition co-authored with Kenneth Wexler (MIT 1983), Principles and Parameters (OUP 1997), Syntactic Nuts (OUP 1999), Dynamical Syntax co-authored with Andrzej Nowak (OUP 2003), Simpler Syntax co-authored with Ray Jackendoff (OUP 2005), and Natural Language Syntax (OUP 2009). Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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