Offering a compelling perspective on the structure of the human language, this book addresses the proper balance between syntax and semantics, between structure and derivation, and between rule systems and lexicon.
Culicover, Peter W. (1977). Some observations concerning pseudo-clefts. Linguistic Analysis 3: 347–75. Culicover, Peter W. (1982). Though-Attraction. Bloomington: Indiana University Linguistics Club, Bloomington, Ind. Culicover, ...
The volume is of interest to descriptive linguists, theoreticians of grammar, philosophers of science, and studies of the cognitive science of science.
In this book, Peter Culicover introduces the analysis of natural language within the broader question of how language works - of how people use languages to configure words and morphemes in order to express meanings.
Peter W. Culicover ... Syntax by Peter W. Culicover Principles and Parameters An Introduction to Syntactic Theory by Peter W. Culicover A Semantic Approach to English Grammar by R. M. W. Dixon Semantic Analysis: A Practical Introduction ...
However, similarly licensed syntactic properties appear even in sentences where there is no relevant linguistic context, such as (26). (26) Do you like these? [pointing at a pair of pants]. Simpler Syntax proposes a relation of indirect ...
6.3.3 Simpler Syntax The recent Simpler Syntax framework (Culicover and Jackendoff 2005) is interesting from an evolutionary perspective because it attempts to minimise the grammar. More specifically, the narrow language faculty, ...
Non-Transformational Syntax also explores a range of issues that arise in connection with these contemporary approaches, including questions about processing and acquisition.
(22) Is there unpronounced syntactic structure in the ellipsis site? no yes non-structural approaches structural ... A more sophisticated implementation of this approach is proposed in Culicover and Jackendoff's (2005) Simpler Syntax.
Fifty of the world's most distinguished scholars subject the analytic frameworks of contemporary linguistics to the same set of principled questions, showing which models best explain particular phenomena and offering a unique overview of ...
In Simpler syntax, coauthored with Peter Culicover, both authors argue that the most explanatory syntax is the one that inputs the minimum possible structure necessary to mediate between phonology and meaning.