Performance Theory of Order and Constituency

Klappentext This is the first book to systematically investigate the processing basis of syntactic rules and of cross-linguistic regularities. Other areas of syntax that are discussed include universals of relative clause formation and the head of phrase generalization. Zusammenfassung Combining insights from generative syntax! typological studies of language universals! and psycholinguistic studies of language processing! John A. Hawkins here argues that grammars are profoundly shaped by processing. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface; Acknowledgements; 1. Introduction; 2. The grammaticalisation of processing principles; 3. Early Immediate Constituents; 4. Testing EIC's performance predictions; 5. Testing EIC's grammatical predictions; 6. Grammaticalised node construction; 7. Conclusions; References; Index of names; Language index; Subject index; Abbreviations.

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• Authors: John Hawkins, John A. Hawkins, John A. (University of Southern Californi Hawkins
• Assisted by: S. R. Anderson (Editor), J. Bresnan (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 27.01.1995
• EAN: 9780521378673
• ISBN: 978-0-521-37867-3
• No. of pages: 520
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Linguisti
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics