{"product_id":"syntactic-carpentry-an-emergentist-approach-to-syntax-9780805849608","title":"Syntactic Carpentry An Emergentist Approach to","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe book presents a new theory of syntax that is efficiency and computationally oriented and is compatible with the \"emergentist\" movement within linguistics.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"The subject matter of the book crosses many sub-disciplines of the language sciences, and so will appeal to a broad range of researchers. The book would make an excellent addition to graduate-level courses on syntax, language processing, and language acquisition.\"\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e—\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eJournal of Child Language\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"O'Grady has produced an admirably clear and convincingly argued volume laying out the fundamentals of emergentist syntax thesis that the important properties of human language can be derived from general processing mechanisms. The author makes a compelling case that a number of traditional grammatical principles, including control and pronoun binding, which other syntactic approaches have postulated as part of Universal Grammar, are the result of the way in which sentences are constructed in real time.\"\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e—\u003cb\u003eFred Eckman\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eUniversity of Wisconsin at Milwaukee\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eContents: \u003c\/b\u003ePreface. Language Without Grammer. More on Structure Building. Pronoun Interpretation. Control. 'Raising' Structures. Agreement. \u003ci\u003eWh\u003c\/i\u003e Questions. The Syntax of Contraction. Syntax and Processing. Language Acquisition. Concluding Remarks.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis Ltd (Sales)","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51018451288407,"sku":"9780805849608","price":52.7,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780805849608.jpg?v=1750776943","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/syntactic-carpentry-an-emergentist-approach-to-syntax-9780805849608","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}