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Download or read book Merge and the Strong Minimalist Thesis written by Noam Chomsky and published by . This book was released on 2023-12-14 with total page 87 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Element is an accessible and up-to-date exploration of Merge, the central operation of the syntax.

Download or read book Ten Lectures on Diachronic Construction Grammar written by Martin Hilpert and published by Distinguished Lectures in Cogn. This book was released on 2021-08-22 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, Martin Hilpert lays out how Construction Grammar can be applied to the study of language change. In a series of ten lectures on Diachronic Construction Grammar, the book presents the theoretical foundations, open questions, and methodological approaches that inform the constructional analysis of diachronic processes in language. The lectures address issues such as constructional networks, competition between constructions, shifts in collocational preferences, and differentiation and attraction in constructional change. The book features analyses that utilize modern corpus-linguistic methodologies and that draw on current theoretical discussions in usage-based linguistics. It is relevant for researchers and students in cognitive linguistics, corpus linguistics, and historical linguistics. 0Also available in Open Access.

Download or read book Typical and Impaired Processing in Morphosyntax written by Vincent Torrens and published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. This book was released on 2020-10-15 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The present volume presents research on language processing and language disorders. Topics range across typical language processing, child developmental language disorders, adult neurodegenerative disorders and neurological bases of typical or impaired brains. The chapters cover a number of linguistic phenomena, including relative clauses, empty categories, determiner phrases and inflectional morphology. Work in this collection uses a variety of experimental methods, both online and offline, such as eye tracking, reaction times, Event Related Potentials, picture selection, sentence elicitation and picture matching tasks. This book will be useful for linguists, speech therapists, and psycholinguists working on the processing of morphosyntax.

Download or read book Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 14 written by Lori Repetti and published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. This book was released on 2018-08-15 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book contains a peer-reviewed selection of papers presented at the 46th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL 46) that took place in April 2016 at Stony Brook University (SUNY), New York. The most current research and debates on bilingualism, historical linguistics, morphology, phonology, semantics, sociolinguistics, and syntax can be found in its pages. This collection will be of interest to Romance linguists and general linguists as well.

Download or read book Control and Restructuring written by Thomas Grano and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2015 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book uses data from English, Mandarin Chinese, and Modern Greek to develop a new theory of control structures that relates them to restructuring and the semantics of the embedding verb. The theory has implications both for clausal structure and for the relationship between form and meaning in natural language.

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Download or read book Proceedings of the Twentieth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society written by Morton Ann Gernsbacher and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 1308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume of proceedings contains papers, posters, and summaries of symposia presented at the leading conference that brings cognitive scientists together to discuss issues of theoretical and applied concern. For researchers and educators in the field.