Syntactic Carpentry: An Emergentist Approach

The book presents a new theory of syntax that is efficiency and computationally oriented and is compatible with the "emergentist" movement within linguistics. This movement states that the properties of human language "emerge" from forces or processes th

Preface

xi

Language Without Grammar

1

(14)

Introduction

1

(1)

Some Preliminaries

1

(2)

Two Systems

3

(4)

How Sentences Are Built

7

(5)

The Program

12

(3)

Conclusion

More On Structure Building

15

(13)

Introduction

15

(1)

Another Look at Representations

15

(6)

Combine and Resolve

21

(3)

Self-Correction of Errors

24

(2)

Conclusion

26

(2)

Pronoun Interpretation

28

(28)

Introduction

28

(1)

How Anaphors Are Interpreted

29

(7)

Plain Pronouns

36

(4)

Non-Local Anaphors

40

(10)

Principle C Effects

50

(4)

Conclusion

54

(2)

Control

56

(18)

Introduction

56

(1)

Matters of Representation

56

(3)

Matters of Interpretation

59

(11)

Complements of Deverbal Nouns

70

(2)

Conclusion

72

(2)

`Raising' Structures

74

(16)

Introduction

74

(1)

Seem-Type Verbs

75

(5)

Expect-Type Verbs

80

(5)

The Unification of Control and Raising

85

(4)

Conclusion

89

(1)

Agreement

90

(22)

Introduction

90

(1)

The Agreement Mechanism

90

(6)

Agreement in There-Constructions

96

(5)

Agreement and Coordination

101

(5)

Partial Agreement in Other Languages

106

(4)

Conclusion

110

(2)

Wh Questions

112

(26)

Introduction

112

(1)

Forming and Interpreting Wh Questions

112

(6)

Wh Island Effects

118

(7)

The That-Trace Effect

125

(11)

Conclusion

136

(2)

The Syntax Of Contraction

138

(22)

Introduction

138

(1)

Contraction and Immediacy

139

(10)

Want to Contraction

149

(6)

Copula Contraction in Wh Questions

155

(3)

Conclusion

158

(2)

Syntax And Processing

160

(23)

Introduction

160

(1)

What Is at Stake

160

(2)

Resolving Argument Dependencies

162

(4)

Resolving Referential Dependencies

166

(9)

Resolving Agreement Dependencies

175

(1)

Resolving Wh Dependencies

176

(5)

Conclusion

181

(2)

Language Acquisition

183

(25)

Introduction

183

(1)

The Structure Dependence Puzzle

184

(7)

What Speakers of a Language `Know'

191

(2)

The Emergence of Routines

193

(3)

Development and Computational Space

196

(7)

Property and Transition Theories

203

(3)

Conclusion

206

(2)

Concluding Remarks

208

(11)

The Emergentist Thesis

208

(1)

The Viability Issue

209

(8)

A Final Word

217

(2)

References

219

(12)

Index

231

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Syntactic Carpentry: An Emergentist Approach to Syntax

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