Syntactic Carpentry: An Emergentist Approach to Syntax

by William D. O'Grady

Syntactic Carpentry: An Emergentist Approach to Syntax presents a groundbreaking approach to the study of sentence formation. Building on the emergentist thesis that the structure and use of language is shaped by more basic, non-linguistic forces-rather than by an innate Universal Grammar--William O'Grady shows how the defining properties of various core syntactic phenomena (phrase structure, co-reference, control, agreement, contraction, and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0805849602
• ISBN13: 9780805849608
• Release Date: March 2005
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 246 Pages
• Weight: 0.74 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"