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Cross-linguistic variation and efficiency /
This title argues that major patterns of variation across languages are structured by general principles of efficiency in language use and communication, an approach that has far-reaching theoretical consequences for issues such as ease of processing, language universals, complexity, and competing a...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford, UK ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2014.
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| Edición: | First edition. |
| Colección: | Oxford linguistics.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- ""Cover""; ""Cross-linguistic Variation and Efficiency""; ""Copyright""; ""Dedication""; ""Contents""; ""Preface""; ""List of Figures and Tables""; ""List of Abbreviations""; ""1: Language variation and the Performance-Grammar Correspondence Hypothesis""; ""1.1 The Performance-Grammar Correspondence Hypothesis""; ""1.2 Examples of proposed performance-grammar correspondences""; ""1.3 Predictions and consequences of the Performance-Grammar Correspondence Hypothesis""; ""2: Three general efficiency principles""; ""2.1 Efficiency principle 1: Minimize Domains""
- ""2.2 Efficiency principle 2: Minimize Forms""""2.2.1 GreenbergÂ?s markedness hierarchies""; ""2.2.2 Wasow et al. Â?s relativizer omission data""; ""2.2.3 Gaps and resumptive pronouns in relative clauses""; ""2.3 Efficiency principle 3: Maximize Online Processing""; ""2.3.1 Fillers First""; ""2.3.2 Topics First""; ""2.3.3 Other linear precedence asymmetries""; ""2.4 The relationship between complexity and efficiency""; ""2.5 Competing efficiencies in variation data""; ""2.5.1 Extraposition: Good for some phrases, often bad for others""; ""2.5.2 Competing head orderings for complex phrases""
- ""2.5.3 Complex inflections and functional categories benefit online processing""""2.5.4 Interim conclusions""; ""3: Some current issues in language processing and the performance-grammar relationship""; ""3.1 Ease of processing in relation to efficiency""; ""3.2 Production versus comprehension""; ""3.3 Online versus acceptability versus corpus data""; ""3.4 Locality versus antilocality effects""; ""3.5 The relevance of grammatical data for psycholinguistic models""; ""3.6 Efficiency in ChomskyÂ?s Minimalist Program""; ""3.6.1 Internal computations versus performance""
- ""3.6.2 Further issues""""4: The conventionalization of processing efficiency""; ""4.1 Grammaticalization and processing""; ""4.2 The grammaticalization of definiteness marking""; ""4.3 The grammaticalization of syntactic rules""; ""4.4 The mechanisms of change""; ""5: Word order patterns: Head ordering and (dis)harmony""; ""5.1 Head ordering and adjacency in syntax""; ""5.2 MiD effects in the performance of head-initial languages""; ""5.3 MiD effects in head-final languages""; ""5.4 GreenbergÂ?s word order correlations and other domain minimizations""
- ""5.5 Explaining grammatical exceptions and unpredicted patterns""""5.6 Disharmonic word orders""; ""5.7 The timing of phrasal constructions and attachments""; ""5.8 Predictions for disharmonic word orders""; ""5.8.1 Structure (5.4)""; ""5.8.2 Structure (5.3)""; ""5.8.3 Structure (5.2) (head finality)""; ""5.8.4 Conclusions on word order disharmony""; ""6: The typology of noun phrase structure""; ""6.1 Crosslinguistic variation in NP syntax""; ""6.2 Constructibility hypotheses""; ""6.2.1 NP construction""; ""6.2.2 Lexical differentiation for parts of speech""