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The dynamics of lexical interfaces / edited by Ruth Kempson, Eleni Gregoromichelaki, Christine Howes.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Studies in constraint-based lexicalism
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Grammar, Comparative and general--Syntax.
- Grammar, Comparative and general.
- Linguistic analysis (Linguistics).
- Physical Description:
- ix, 404 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Stanford, Calif. : CSLI Publications/Center for the Study of Language and Information, [2011]
- Summary:
- Dynamic Syntax is a formal model of utterance description that attempts to articulate and substantiate the claim that human linguistic knowledge is essentially the ability to process language in context. The model provides an explicit demonstration of how interpretation is built up incrementally from the information provided by the words as they are encountered. Drawing from a range of analyses of natural language data, the authors use formal definitions, step-by-step derivations, and detailed lexical definitions to illustrate this new form of syntactic analysis and to show how the model can be applied to a broad range of constructions and languages. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- Introduction: the dynamics of lexical interfaces / Ruth Kempson, Eleni Gregoromichelaki, and Christine Howes: I Applying the framework : SiSwati Clefts: The Meeting Ground of Context and Contrast / Ruth Kempson, Lutz Marten and Nhlanhla Thwala
- The prosody of Bemba relative clauses / Nancy C. Kula & Lutz Marten
- Future Constructions in Medieval Spanish / Miriam Bouzouita
- Towards A Dynamic Typology of Passives / Yicheng Wu
- Word-order variation in Korean / Jieun Kiaer
- Local Ambiguity, Search Strategies and Parsing in DS / Yo Sato
- II New departures: Conditionals in Dynamic Syntax / Eleni Gregoromichelaki
- Towards an account of the English Auxiliary System / Ronnie Cann
- A Dynamic Account of Clitic Climbing: A first sketch / Stergios Chatzikyriakidis
- The bei construction in Chinese: a dynamic approach / Ronnie Cann and Yicheng Wu.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1575866145
- 9781575866154
- 1575866153
- 9781575866147
- OCLC:
- 670480255
- Publisher Number:
- 99945997094
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