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Syntactic Complexity across Interfaces / ed. by Andreas Trotzke, Josef Bayer.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Interface Explorations [IE] ; 30Publisher: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter Mouton, [2015]Copyright date: ©2015Description: 1 online resource (228 p.)Content type:
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  • 9781614517856
  • 9781501501012
  • 9781614517900
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 400
LOC classification:
  • P291
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  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- 1. Syntactic complexity across interfaces -- 2. Against complexity parameters -- 3. Top-down derivation, recursion, and the model of grammar -- 4. What small clauses can tell us about complex sentence structure -- 5. Syntactic and prosodic integration and disintegration in peripheral adverbial clauses and in right dislocation/afterthought -- 6. On representing anchored parentheses in syntax -- 7. The development of subordination -- 8. Avoid Phase: How interfaces provide critical triggers for wh-movement in acquisition -- 9. Learning structures with displaced arguments -- Index
Summary: Syntactic complexity has always been a matter of intense investigation in formal linguistics. Since complex syntax is clearly evidenced by sentential embedding and since embedding of one clause/phrase in another is taken to signal recursivity of the grammar, the capacity of computing syntactic complexity is of central interest to the recent hypothesis that syntactic recursion is the defining property of natural language. In the light of more recent claims according to which complex syntax is not a universal property of all living languages, the issue of how to detect and define syntactic complexity has been revived with a combination of classical and new arguments. This volume contains contributions about the formal complexity of natural language, about specific issues of clausal embedding, and about syntactic complexity in terms of grammar-external interfaces in the domain of language acquisition.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- 1. Syntactic complexity across interfaces -- 2. Against complexity parameters -- 3. Top-down derivation, recursion, and the model of grammar -- 4. What small clauses can tell us about complex sentence structure -- 5. Syntactic and prosodic integration and disintegration in peripheral adverbial clauses and in right dislocation/afterthought -- 6. On representing anchored parentheses in syntax -- 7. The development of subordination -- 8. Avoid Phase: How interfaces provide critical triggers for wh-movement in acquisition -- 9. Learning structures with displaced arguments -- Index

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Syntactic complexity has always been a matter of intense investigation in formal linguistics. Since complex syntax is clearly evidenced by sentential embedding and since embedding of one clause/phrase in another is taken to signal recursivity of the grammar, the capacity of computing syntactic complexity is of central interest to the recent hypothesis that syntactic recursion is the defining property of natural language. In the light of more recent claims according to which complex syntax is not a universal property of all living languages, the issue of how to detect and define syntactic complexity has been revived with a combination of classical and new arguments. This volume contains contributions about the formal complexity of natural language, about specific issues of clausal embedding, and about syntactic complexity in terms of grammar-external interfaces in the domain of language acquisition.

Issued also in print.

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In English.

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