24.1602, Books: Grammar & Complexity: Culicover

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Date: Tue, 09 Apr 2013 08:07:35
From: Annie Leyman [annie.leyman at oup.com]
Subject: Grammar & Complexity: Culicover

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Title: Grammar & Complexity 
Subtitle: Language at the Interface of Competence and Performance 
Publication Year: 2013 
Publisher: Oxford University Press
	   http://www.oup.com/us

Book URL: http://ukcatalogue.oup.com/product/9780199654604.do 

Author: Peter W. Culicover

Hardback: ISBN:  9780199654598 Pages: 336 Price: U.K. £ 80.00
Paperback: ISBN:  9780199654604 Pages: 336 Price: U.K. £ 29.99

Abstract:

This book combines ideas about the architecture of grammar and language
acquisition, processing, and change to explain why languages show regular
patterns when there is so much irregularity in their use and so much
complexity when there is such regularity in linguistic phenomena. Peter
Culicover argues that the structure of language can be understood and
explained in terms of two kinds of complexity: firstly that of the
correspondence between form and meaning; secondly in the real-time processes
involved in the construction of meanings in linguistic expressions.

Mainstream syntactic theory has focused largely on regularities within and
across languages, relegating to the periphery exceptional and idiosyncratic
phenomena. But, the author argues, a language's irregular and unique features
offer fundamental insights into the nature of language, how it changes, and
how it is produced and understood.

Peter Culicover's new book offers a pertinent and original contribution to key
current debates in linguistic theory. It will interest scholars and advanced
students of linguists of all theoretical persuasions.

Linguistic Field(s): Cognitive Science
                     Linguistic Theories
                     Syntax

Written In: English  (eng)

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