The Mental Corpus: How Language Is Represented in the Mind

by John R. Taylor

This book presents a radical reconceptualization of the nature of linguistic knowledge. John Taylor challenges the conventional notion that a language can be understood in terms of the interaction of syntax with a lexicon, the second listing the words and the first the rules for combining them. He proposes instead that an individual's knowledge of a language can be thought of as a repository of memories of linguistic experience. Each encounter with...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199290814
• ISBN13: 9780199290819
• Release Date: February 2015
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.9" x 9.2"