Grammar and complexity : language at the intersection of competence and performance /

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Culicover, Peter W.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2013.
Edición:1st ed.
Colección:Oxford linguistics.
Temas:
Grammar, Comparative and general.
Complexity (Linguistics)
Grammaire comparée et générale.
Complexité (Linguistique)
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Grammar & Punctuation.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Linguistics > Syntax.
Grammar, Comparative and general
Grammatik
Komplexität
Pragmatik
Llibres electrònics.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • pt. I Theoretical background
  • 1. Varieties of grammatical complexity
  • 1.1. Tolerating complexity, or Squinting at Dali's Lincoln
  • 1.1.1. Resolution
  • 1.1.2. Core and periphery
  • 1.1.3. On explanation in linguistics: beyond the core and the periphery
  • 1.2. The logic of complexity
  • 1.3. Formal complexity
  • competence
  • 1.3.1. Markedness
  • 1.3.2. Derivational economy
  • 1.3.3. Syntactic complexity
  • 1.4. Processing complexity
  • 1.5. Other notions of complexity
  • 1.5.1. Surprisal
  • 1.5.2. Optimality theory
  • 2. The architecture of constructions
  • 2.1. Constructions
  • 2.2. Correspondences
  • 2.2.1. Representing constructions
  • 2.2.2. VP
  • 2.2.3. Meaning
  • 2.3. Constructional complexity
  • 2.3.1. Regularities and idiosyncrasies in the constructional lexicon
  • 2.3.2. Coverage
  • 2.3.3. Strain
  • pt. II English constructions
  • 3. Isolating constructional complexity: two case studies
  • 3.1. English relatives
  • 3.1.1. Inheritance and complexity.
  • 3.1.2. Relatives as constructions
  • Sag (1997)
  • 3.1.3. Simplifying the description
  • 3.1.4. Relative correspondences
  • 3.1.5. Appositive and free relatives
  • 3.1.6. Summary
  • 3.2. Focus inversion
  • 3.2.1. Inversion
  • 3.2.2.Comparative inversion
  • 3.2.3. The subject is l̀ow'
  • 3.2.4. Focus inversion as a construction
  • 3.2.5. More focus inversion constructions
  • 3.2.6. Conclusions
  • 4. Constructions and the notion p̀ossible human language'
  • 4.1. Sluice-stranding
  • 4.1.1. Correspondences for questions
  • 4.1.2. Interpreting sluicing
  • 4.2.Comparative correlatives
  • 4.3. Concessives
  • 4.4. Imperatives
  • 4.5. Not-topics (not in my car (you won't))
  • 4.6. Summary
  • pt. III Processing complexity and grammar
  • 5. Reflexes of processing complexity
  • 5.1. Universals
  • 5.2. Where do universals live?
  • 5.3. Islands
  • 5.3.1.Complexity factors
  • 5.3.2. Grammatical constraint violations
  • 5.3.3.Computing correspondences
  • 5.4. Parasitic gaps.
  • 5.4.1. Parasitic gap constructions
  • 5.4.2.Complexity factors in parasitic gaps
  • 5.4.3. Some impossible parasitic gaps
  • 5.4.4. Summary: processing gaps
  • 5.5.Complex ellipsis
  • 5.6. Summary
  • pt. IV Acquisition, change, and variation
  • 6. Explaining complexity: the learner in the network
  • 6.1. The paradox of complexity
  • 6.2. Growing complexity
  • 6.2.1. Infinitival relatives
  • 6.2.2. Preposition-stranding
  • 6.3. Maintaining complexity
  • 6.3.1. Learning constructions
  • 6.3.2. Constructions in contact: viruses in the body linguistic
  • 6.4. Conclusions and perspectives
  • 7. Constructional complexity and change
  • 7.1. Change as explanation
  • 7.2. Derivations
  • 7.2.1. Affix hopping
  • 7.2.2. The shift to structure: I0
  • 7.3. English constructions
  • 7.3.1. Some core constructions
  • 7.3.2. Ordering the correspondences
  • 7.3.3. Constructional domains
  • 7.3.4.do-support
  • 7.4. Tracing the changes
  • 7.4.1. Periphrastic do.
  • 7.4.2. Growth of English do-support
  • 7.4.3. Transition to SAI
  • 7.5. Summary
  • 8. Integrating constructions, complexity, and change
  • 8.1. CWG verb clusters
  • 8.2. Derivational accounts
  • 8.3. Optimality accounts
  • 8.4.A constructional account
  • 8.5. Two biases
  • 8.6. Clusters in the network
  • 8.7. Summary.

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