| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 280 pages) : illustrations |
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Routledge Leading Linguists ; 20 |
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Routledge leading linguists ; 20.
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| Contents |
Introduction / Katherine McKinney-Bock and Maria Luisa Zubizarreta -- II. Exquisite connections: some remarks on the evolution of linguistic theory / Robert Freidin and Jean-Roger Vergnaud -- III. On a Certain Notion of Occurrence: The source of metrical structure and much more / Jean-Roger Vergnaud -- Ivolume Generalizing the Notion of Occurrence / Tommi Leung -- volume Some Explanatory Avatars of Conceptual Necessity: Elements of UG / Jean-Roger Vergnaud -- VI. Grafts and Beyond: Graph Theoretic Syntax / Katherine McKinney-Bock and Jean-Roger Vergnaud -- VII. On Merge-markers and Nominal Structures / Wei-wen Roger Liao and Jean-Roger Vergnaud |
| Summary |
This book is a compilation of manuscripts and publications from 2001-2010 by Jean-Roger Vergnaud, in collaboration with colleagues and students. This work is guided by the scientific belief that broader mathematical principles should guide linguistic inquiry, as they guide classical biology and physics. From this, Vergnaud's hypotheses take the representation of the computational component of language to a more abstract level: one that derives constituent structure. He treats linguistic features as primitives, and argues that a 2 x n matrix allows for multiple discrete dimensi |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Grammar, Comparative and general.
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Linguistics -- Methodology.
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Grammaticality (Linguistics)
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LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Grammar & Punctuation.
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LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Linguistics -- Syntax.
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Grammar, Comparative and general
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Grammaticality (Linguistics)
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Linguistics -- Methodology
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Vergnaud, Jean-Roger
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McKinney-Bock, Katherine, editor
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Zubizarreta, Maria Luisa, editor
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| ISBN |
9781134510955 |
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1134510950 |
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9781315889825 |
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131588982X |
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1306051363 |
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9781306051361 |
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