Explaining Syntax: Representations, Structures, and Computation

by Peter W. Culicover

This book brings together Peter Culicover's most important observations on the nature of syntax and its place within the architecture of language. Over four decades he has sought to understand the mental system in which linguistic expressions are processed. This has led him to re-formulate the balance between the requirements of interpretation and the role of syntactic structure; to examine the nature of the empirical basis in which particular structural...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199660239
• ISBN13: 9780199660230
• Release Date: November 2013
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 396 Pages
• Weight: 1.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.8" x 9.8"