Efficiency and Complexity in Grammars

Name: Efficiency and Complexity in Grammars
Brand: Oxford University Press
SKU: 9780199252688
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Автор: John Hawkins

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Издател: Oxford University Press

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This book addresses a question fundamental to any discussion of grammatical theory and grammatical v...

Информация за книгата

Автор

John Hawkins

Език

Английски език

Корици

Книга - С твърди корици

Издадена

2004

страници

328

EAN

9780199252688

ISBN

0199252688

Enbook ID

04530427

Издател

Oxford University Press

Теглоt

628

Размери

165 x 243 x 24

Пълно описание

This book addresses a question fundamental to any discussion of grammatical theory and grammatical variation: to what extent can principles of grammar be explained through language use? John A. Hawkins argues that there is a profound correspondence between performance data and the fixed conventions of grammars. Preferences and patterns found in the one, he shows, are reflected in constraints and variation patterns in the other. The theoretical consequences of the proposed 'performance-grammar correspondence hypothesis' are far-reaching -- for current grammatical formalisms, for the innateness hypothesis, and for psycholinguistic models of performance and learning. Drawing on empirical generalizations and insights from language typology, generative grammar, psycholinguistics, and historical linguistics, Professor Hawkins demonstrates that the assumption that grammars are immune to performance is false.

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