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Syntactic complexity across interfaces /

In light of recent claims that complex syntax is not a universal property of all living languages, the issue of how to detect and define syntactic complexity has been revived. This volume contains contributions about the formal complexity of natural language, specific issues of clausal embedding, an...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Trotzke, Andreas, Bayer, Josef
Formato: eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter Mouton, [2015]
Colección:Interface explorations ; v. 30.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • 1. Syntactic complexity across interfaces / Trotzke, Andreas ; Bayer, Josef
  • 2. Against complexity parameters / Sauerland, Uli
  • 3. Top-down derivation, recursion, and the model of grammar / Zwart, Jan-Wouter
  • 4. What small clauses can tell us about complex sentence structure / Bauke, Leah S.
  • 5. Syntactic and prosodic integration and disintegration in peripheral adverbial clauses and in right dislocation/afterthought / Frey, Werner ; Truckenbrodt, Hubert
  • 6. On representing anchored parentheses in syntax / Kluck, Marlies
  • 7. The development of subordination / Veenstra, Tonjes
  • 8. Avoid Phase: How interfaces provide critical triggers for wh-movement in acquisition / Roeper, Tom
  • 9. Learning structures with displaced arguments / Becker, Misha
  • Index.