16.1169, Books: Syntax/Cog Sci/Ling Theories: O'Grady

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Date: 12-Apr-2005
From: Cathleen Petree < CathleenPetree at earthlink.net >
Subject: Syntactic Carpentry: O'Grady

	
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Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2005 10:38:20
From: Cathleen Petree < CathleenPetree at earthlink.net >
Subject: Syntactic Carpentry: O'Grady




Title: Syntactic Carpentry
Subtitle: An Emergentist Approach to Syntax
Publication Year: 2005
Publisher: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates
	   http://www.erlbaum.com/
	
Author: William O'Grady, University of Hawaii

Hardback: ISBN: 0805849599 Pages: 248 Price: U.S. $ 75.00
Paperback: ISBN: 0805842602 Pages: 248 Price: U.S. $ 29.95


Abstract:

Syntactic Carpentry: An Emergentist Approach to Syntax presents a
ground-breaking 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 extraction) follow from the operation of a linear,
efficiency-driven processor. This in turn leads to a compelling new view of
sentence formation that subsumes syntactic theory into the theory of
sentence processing, eliminating grammar in the traditional sense from the
study of the language faculty.

With this volume O'Grady advances a growing body of literature on
emergentist approaches to language, and situates this work in a broader
picture that also includes attention to key issues in the study of language
acquisition, psycholinguistics, and agrammaticism. This book constitutes
essential reading for anyone interested in syntax and its place in the
larger enterprise of cognitive science.



Linguistic Field(s): Cognitive Science
                     Language Acquisition
                     Linguistic Theories
                     Psycholinguistics
                     Syntax


Written In: English  (ENG)
	
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