Rui P Chaves, Michael T Putnam

Unbounded Dependency Constructions

Theoretical and Experimental Perspectives

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Produktbeschreibung

This book examines the nature, creation, and comprehension of constructions in which words that go together in meaning occur arbitrarily far away from each other. It provides a detailed survey of the factors responsible for their creation and comprehension, alongside new experimental evidence and suggestions for future research.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Februar 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 246mm x 173mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 599g
• ISBN-13: 9780198785002
• ISBN-10: 0198785003
• Artikelnr.: 60869403

Autorenporträt

Rui P. Chaves is Associate Professor of Linguistics at the University at Buffalo, the State University of New York. His work focuses on how linguistic knowledge interfaces with cognition, and in particular with probabilistic information that shapes linguistic behavior. He has specialized in formally explicit construction-based models of grammar. Michael T. Putnam is Associate Professor of German and Linguistics at Penn State University. His research focuses on achieving a more refined understanding of linguistic phenomena along the morphology-syntax-semantics continuum. He has a particular interest in Germanic languages and the effects of bilingualism across the lifespan.

Inhaltsangabe

1: Introduction
2: Extraction types
3: Extraction constraints
4: Movement-based approaches
5: Non-movement-based approaches
6: Experience-based effects
7: The acquisition of UDCs
8: Conclusion