Kategoria BISAC: Language Arts & Disciplines >> Linguistics - Syntax

This book is a compilation of manuscripts and publications from 2001-2010 by Jean-Roger Vergnaud, in collaboration with colleagues and students. This work is guided by the scientific belief that broader mathematical principles should guide linguistic inquiry, as they guide classical biology and physics. From this, Vergnaud s hypotheses take the representation of the computational component of language to a more abstract level: one that "derives" constituent structure. He treats linguistic features as primitives, and argues that a "2 x n "matrix allows for multiple discrete dimensions to...

This addition to the Cognitive Science and Second Language Acquisition series presents a comprehensive review of the latest research findings on sentence processing in second language acquisition. The book begins with a broad overview of the core issues of second language sentence processing research and then narrows its focus by dedicating individual chapters to each of these key areas. While a number of publications have discussed research findings on knowledge of formal syntactic principles as part of theories of second language acquisition, there are fewer resources dedicated...

• Includes introductions, annotations by the editors, and discussion questions to teach students how to critically read precedent-setting works
• Features writings by authors including Noam Chomsky, Paul Postal, and Luigi Rizzi
• Focuses on significant ideas, core passages of articles, and resulting applications that have shaped the field of syntax
• Encourages...

Taking as a point of departure ideas and principles from the 18th and 19th century Danish tradition, and from 20th century traditions of the Copenhagen School of linguistics, this book attempts to set up a formal theory of syntax that addresses some of the weak points of other formal grammars, notably Chomskyan grammar.

After introductions to the ideas of Brondal, Hjelmslev and Diderichsen, Gotzsche lays the philosophical and theoretical foundations of his formalism, based on a theory of universal pragmatics and on the invention of a special kind of formal logic called 'occurrence...