Island Constraints

Author : H. Goodluck
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9401719802
Total Pages : 361 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Island Constraints written by H. Goodluck and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-03-09 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: constraints', which serve to block the association of antecedent to gap under specific syntactic conditions. Of the restrictions identified by Ross and others, the ones we will discuss here are the Complex NP Constraint, exemplified with a relative clause in (3b) and with a nominal complement in (4a), the Subject and wh Island Conditions (Chomsky, 1973) in (4b, c) respectively, and the Adjunct Island Condi tion (see Huang, 1982's Condition on Extraction Domain), illustrated in (4d, e). (4) (a) *John, Mary made the claim that Sally plans to recommend_ for ajob. John, Mary claimed that Sally plans to recommend _ for a job. As for John, Mary heard the rumor that Sally intends to marry him. (b) *John, an article about _just appeared in the newspaper. As for John, an article about him just appeared in the news paper. (c) *Bill, I wonder who likes_. As for Bill, I wonder who likes him. (d) *The heat, we left early because of _. As for the heat, we left early because of it. (e) *The money, I lied so that I could keep_. As for the money, I lied so that I could keep it.

Author : Andrew Carnie
Publisher : Wiley-Blackwell
ISBN 13 : 9780631225430
Total Pages : 390 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Syntax written by Andrew Carnie and published by Wiley-Blackwell. This book was released on 2002 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, by one of Spain's most eminent philosophers, provides a lively and very accessible introduction to philosophy. Written for those who have no prior knowledge of the field, it reveals how the central problems of philosophy remain high"

Author : Elaine J. Francis
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192654322
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gradient Acceptability and Linguistic Theory written by Elaine J. Francis and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021-12-15 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines a challenging problem at the intersection of theoretical linguistics and the psychology of language: the interpretation of gradient judgments of sentence acceptability in relation to theories of grammatical knowledge. Acceptability judgments constitute the primary source of data on which such theories have been built, despite being susceptible to various extra-grammatical factors. Through a review of experimental and corpus-based research on a variety of syntactic phenomena and an in-depth examination of two case studies, Elaine J. Francis argues for two main positions. The first is that converging evidence from online comprehension tasks, elicited production tasks, and corpora of naturally-occurring discourse can help to determine the sources of variation in acceptability judgments and to narrow down the range of plausible theoretical interpretations. The second is that the interpretation of judgment data depends crucially on the theoretical commitments and assumptions made, especially with respect to the nature of the syntax-semantics interface and the choice of either a categorical or a gradient notion of grammaticality. The theoretical frameworks considered in this book include derivational theories (e.g. Minimalism, Principles and Parameters), constraint-based theories (e.g. Sign-based Construction Grammar, Simpler Syntax), competition-based theories (e.g. Stochastic Optimality Theory, Decathlon Model), and usage-based approaches. The volume shows that while acceptability judgment data are typically compatible with the assumptions of various theoretical frameworks, some gradient phenomena are best captured within frameworks that permit soft constraints-non-categorical grammatical constraints that encode the conventional preferences of language users.

Author : Gereon Müller
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9027284083
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Constraints on Displacement written by Gereon Müller and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2011-10-26 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This monograph sets out to derive the effects of standard constraints on displacement like the Minimal Link Condition (MLC) and the Condition on Extraction Domain (CED) from more basic principles in a minimalist approach. Assuming that movement via phase edges is possible only in the presence of edge features on phase heads, simple restrictions can be introduced on when such edge features can be inserted derivationally. The resulting system is shown to correctly predict MLC/CED effects (including certain exceptions, like intervention without c-command and melting). In addition, it derives operator-island effects, a restriction on extraction from verb-second clauses, and island repair by ellipsis. The approach presupposes that syntactic operations apply in a fixed order: Timing emerges as crucial. Thus, the book provides new arguments for a strictly derivational organization of syntax. Accordingly, it should be of interest not only to all syntacticians working on islands, but more generally to all scholars interested in the overall organization of grammar.

Author : Lydia White
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521796477
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Second Language Acquisition and Universal Grammar written by Lydia White and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2003-03-06 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Table of contents

Author : C. Jan-Wouter Zwart
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9027287902
Total Pages : 421 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Structure Preserved written by C. Jan-Wouter Zwart and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2010-07-29 with total page 421 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Structure is at the rock-bottom of all explanatory sciences" (Jan Koster). Forty years ago, the hypothesis that underlying the bewildering variety of syntactic phenomena are general and unified structural patterns of unexpected beauty and simplicity gave rise to major advancements in the study of Dutch and Germanic syntax, with important implications for the theory of grammar as a whole. Jan Koster was one of the central figures in this development, and he has continued to explore the structure preserving hypothesis throughout his illustrious career. This collection of articles by over forty syntacticians celebrates the advancements made in the study of syntax over the past forty years, reflecting on the structural principles underlying syntactic phenomena and emulating the approach to syntactic analysis embodied in Jan Koster's teaching and research.

Author : Shalom Lappin
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 1000817881
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Algebraic Structures in Natural Language written by Shalom Lappin and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2022-12-23 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Algebraic Structures in Natural Language addresses a central problem in cognitive science concerning the learning procedures through which humans acquire and represent natural language. Until recently algebraic systems have dominated the study of natural language in formal and computational linguistics, AI, and the psychology of language, with linguistic knowledge seen as encoded in formal grammars, model theories, proof theories and other rule-driven devices. Recent work on deep learning has produced an increasingly powerful set of general learning mechanisms which do not apply rule-based algebraic models of representation. The success of deep learning in NLP has led some researchers to question the role of algebraic models in the study of human language acquisition and linguistic representation. Psychologists and cognitive scientists have also been exploring explanations of language evolution and language acquisition that rely on probabilistic methods, social interaction and information theory, rather than on formal models of grammar induction. This book addresses the learning procedures through which humans acquire natural language, and the way in which they represent its properties. It brings together leading researchers from computational linguistics, psychology, behavioral science and mathematical linguistics to consider the significance of non-algebraic methods for the study of natural language. The text represents a wide spectrum of views, from the claim that algebraic systems are largely irrelevant to the contrary position that non-algebraic learning methods are engineering devices for efficiently identifying the patterns that underlying grammars and semantic models generate for natural language input. There are interesting and important perspectives that fall at intermediate points between these opposing approaches, and they may combine elements of both. It will appeal to researchers and advanced students in each of these fields, as well as to anyone who wants to learn more about the relationship between computational models and natural language.

Author : 鈴木憲夫
Publisher : 春風社
ISBN 13 : 486110114X
Total Pages : 373 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reflection's on Chomsky's Strong Minimalist Thesis written by 鈴木憲夫 and published by 春風社. This book was released on 2007-05 with total page 373 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: チョムスキーによる言語習得の理論

Author : Aria Adli
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110346850
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Variation in Language: System- and Usage-based Approaches written by Aria Adli and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2015-07-24 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Where is the locus of language variation? In the grammar, outside the grammar or somewhere in between? Taking up the debate between system- and usage-based approaches, this volume provides new discussions of fundamental issues of language variation. It includes several highly insightful theoretical contributions as well as innovative empirical studies considering different types of data, the role of priming in language change and rare phenomena.

Author : Jon Sprouse
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107652707
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Experimental Syntax and Island Effects written by Jon Sprouse and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-10-17 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume brings together cutting-edge experimental research from leaders in the fields of linguistics and psycholinguistics to explore the nature of a phenomenon that has long been central to syntactic theory - 'island effects'. The chapters in this volume draw upon recent methodological advances in experimental methods in syntax, also known as 'experimental syntax', to investigate the underlying cognitive mechanisms that give rise to island effects. This volume presents a comprehensive empirical review of a contemporary debate in the field by including contributions from researchers representing a variety of points of view on the nature of island effects. This book is ideal for students and researchers interested in cutting-edge experimental techniques in linguistics, psycholinguistics and psychology.