By Peter Culicover
ISBN-10: 019965459X
ISBN-13: 9780199654598
This publication combines principles in regards to the structure of grammar and language acquisition, processing, and alter to give an explanation for why languages exhibit average styles whilst there's a lot irregularity of their use and loads complexity whilst there's such regularity in linguistic phenomena. Peter Culicover argues that the constitution of language will be understood and defined by way of varieties of complexity: to start with that of the correspondence among shape and that means; secondly within the real-time procedures desirous about the development of meanings in linguistic expressions.
Mainstream generative idea relies on inherent linguistic competence and at the regularities inside and throughout languages, with the phenomenal points of any language usually positioned to 1 aspect. yet a language's abnormal and designated gains supply, the writer argues, primary insights into either the character of language and how it really is produced and understood.
Peter Culicover's new ebook deals a pertinent and unique contribution to key present debates in linguistic idea. it is going to curiosity students and complex scholars of linguists of all theoretical persuasions.
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In contrast, I assume that knowledge of language consists of constructions of varying degrees of generality and idiosyncrasy. The most general constructions are typically those that are recruited to perform the everyday expressive functions of a language—making statements, asking questions, issuing requests and orders, referring to objects in the world, and attributing properties to them, and so on. The less general constructions typically have more specialized functions. Fillmore et al. (1988) is probably the earliest clear specification of the scope of a grammar that takes constructions explicitly into account.
6 The lexicon is the repository of idiosyncratic information about the form– meaning correspondence. A word is a correspondence of a syntactically simple form with a lexical category, a sound and a meaning (Jackendoff 1990). A construction is a syntactically complex form with a lexical or phrasal category, depending on its structure, and possibly a corresponding meaning. Constructions may contain variable elements, to the extent that there are compositional parts of their interpretation. So the construction exemplified in (8) will have the lexical entry in (9).
C. d. Terry will see Paris in the spring. #In the spring Terry will see Paris. #It is Paris that Terry will see in the spring. #What Terry will do is see Paris in the spring. 1 Regularities and idiosyncrasies in the constructional lexicon A central idea in constructionalist approaches to grammar is that constructions are not arbitrary correspondences between form and meaning. , typically have the same structure as literally interpreted VPs. What differs is the lexical specificity of the idiom and the corresponding idiosyncratic interpretation.
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