Syntactic Modularity

Author : Gabriella Hermon
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2019-12-02
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110849141

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Syntactic Modularity by Gabriella Hermon Pdf

The architecture of the human language faculty has been one of the main foci of the linguistic research of the last half century. This branch of linguistics, broadly known as Generative Grammar, is concerned with the formulation of explanatory formal accounts of linguistic phenomena with the ulterior goal of gaining insight into the properties of the 'language organ'. The series comprises high quality monographs and collected volumes that address such issues. The topics in this series range from phonology to semantics, from syntax to information structure, from mathematical linguistics to studies of the lexicon. To discuss your book idea or submit a proposal, please contact Birgit Sievert

Author : Gabriella Hermon
Publisher : Foris Publications USA
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9067651117

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Syntactic Modularity by Gabriella Hermon Pdf

Author : Ann Kathleen Farmer
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 0262561727

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Modularity in Syntax by Ann Kathleen Farmer Pdf

This book clarifies some of the central issues in Japanese syntax, pointing the wayto solving several long-standing problems. It presents an alternative to the Standard Theory, amodel which has dominated Japanese linguistics for a number of years.Following the study of thesyntactic and lexical levels of representation in Japanese, the book brings the same theoreticalperspective to bear on English. Although Japanese, a so-called nonconfigurational language, istypologically far removed from Indo-European languages, Farmer shows that Modular Grammar, which wasprimarily developed to account for an "exotic" language, yields insights into English as well, Inparticular, she examines the status of pronouns and anaphors. Aspects of Government Binding theoryare adapted for both Japanese and English, providing significant evidence that still-evolvingtheories have wide and possibly universal validity.Modularity in Syntax concludes by comparingJapanese and English, speculating on the extent to which the typological differences between themare a function of the nature of the rules and principles that mediate between the syntax and thelexical structure of the two languages.Ann Farmer is an Assistant Professor in the Department ofLinguistics, at the University of Arizona. This book is the ninth in the series, Current Studies inLinguistics, edited by Samuel Jay Keyser.

Author : Megan R. Gunnar,Michael Maratsos
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2014-02-25
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781317782209

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Modularity and Constraints in Language and Cognition by Megan R. Gunnar,Michael Maratsos Pdf

One of the central problems in the study of modern cognition is the degree to which higher cognition is modularized: that is, how much are higher functions carried out by domain-specific, specialized, cognitive subsystems, rather than a highly general cognitive learning and inferring device? To date, ideas and proposals about modularity have been best developed in the study of vision and grammar. In the present volume, the usefulness of approaches employing modularity and domain specificity are further explored in papers on the development of biological thought, word meaning, symbols, and emotional development, as well as in the core area of grammar itself, by leading researchers in these fields. The volume also contains an introduction to some basic ideas and concepts in the study of modularity and domain-specificity, and some critical discussion of the overall problems of the modularity constraints approach to analyzing development.

Author : Paul Douglas Deane
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 3110131838

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Grammar in Mind and Brain by Paul Douglas Deane Pdf

Author : Jerrold M. Sadock
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2012-01-12
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781139504980

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The Modular Architecture of Grammar by Jerrold M. Sadock Pdf

Modular grammar postulates several autonomous generative systems interacting with one another as opposed to the prevailing theory of transformational grammar where there is a single generative component – the syntax – from which other representations are derived. In this book Jerrold Sadock develops his influential theory of grammar, formalizing several generative modules that independently characterize the levels of syntax, semantics, role structure, morphology and linear order, as well as an interface system that connects them. Multi-modular grammar provides simpler, more intuitive analyses of grammatical phenomena and allows for greater empirical coverage than prevailing styles of grammar. The book illustrates this with a wide-ranging analysis of English grammatical phenomena, including raising, control, passive, inversion, do-support, auxiliary verbs and ellipsis. The modules are simple enough to be cast as phrase structure grammars and are presented in sufficient detail to make descriptions of grammatical phenomena more explicit than the approximate accounts offered in other studies.

Author : L.N. Kanal,J.F. Lemmer
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 474 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2014-06-28
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781483296531

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Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence 2 by L.N. Kanal,J.F. Lemmer Pdf

This second volume is arranged in four sections: Analysis contains papers which compare the attributes of various approaches to uncertainty. Tools provides sufficient information for the reader to implement uncertainty calculations. Papers in the Theory section explain various approaches to uncertainty. The Applications section describes the difficulties involved in, and the results produced by, incorporating uncertainty into actual systems.

Author : Etsuyo Yuasa
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2009-02-26
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110197525

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Modularity in Language by Etsuyo Yuasa Pdf

In Modularity in Language, Etsuyo Yuasa investigates exceptions and idiosyncrasies in various complex clauses in Japanese and English within the framework of multi-modular approaches to grammar. She proposes original analyses of various complex clauses in Japanese and English, which deviate from the norms of other complex clauses in the same language or in other languages, and shows how these cases of syntax-semantics mismatch justify the independence (or 'autonomy') of different levels of grammatical structures. Yuasa's significant contribution is the incorporation of the notion of 'construction' from Construction Grammar into multi-modular approaches to grammar. She claims that the idiosyncratic cases examined in this study are instances of constructional and categorial mismatches where a syntactic representation of a prototypical construction is paired with a semantic representation of another prototypical construction. Modularity in Language is aimed at those interested in grammatical theories in general, the parallel architecture of grammar (including Lexical-Functional Grammar, Autolexical Grammar, Representational Modularity), Constructional Grammar, syntax/semantics interface, and Japanese linguistics.

Author : Milan Rezac
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2010-11-12
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789048196982

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Phi-features and the Modular Architecture of Language by Milan Rezac Pdf

This monograph investigates the modular architecture of language through the nature of "uninterpretable" phi-features: person, number, gender, and Case. It provides new tools and evidence for the modular architecture of the human language faculty, a foundational topic of linguistic research. At the same time it develops a new theory for one of the core issues posed by the Minimalist Program: the relationship of syntax to its interfaces and the nature of uninterpretable features. The work sets out to establish a new cross-linguistic phenomenon to study the foregoing, person-governed last-resort repairs, which provides new insights into the nature of ergative/accusative Case and of Case licensing itself. This is the first monograph that explicitly addresses the syntactic vs. morphological status of uninterpretable phi-features and their relationship to interface systems in a similar way, drawing on person-based interactions among arguments as key data-base.

Author : Alexandre Bergel,Johan Fabry
Publisher : Springer
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2009-06-30
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783642026553

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Software Composition by Alexandre Bergel,Johan Fabry Pdf

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th International Symposium on Software Composition, SC 2009, held in Zurich, Switzerland, in July 2009. The workshop has been organized as an event co-located with the TOOLS Europe 2009 conference. The 10 revised full papers presented together with 2 invited lectures were carefully reviewed and selected from 34 submissions. The papers reflect current research in software composition to foster developing of composition models and techniques by using aspect- and service-oriented programming, specification of component contracts and protocols, methods of correct components composition, as well as verification, validation and testing techniques - even in pervasive computing environments and for the Web.

Author : Bert Peeters
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 507 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2021-10-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780585474465

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The Lexicon-Encyclopedia Interface by Bert Peeters Pdf

Questions about the exact nature of linguistic as opposed to non-linguistic knowledge have been asked for as long as humans have studied language, be it as linguists, philosophers, psychologists, semioticians or cognitive scientists. This work argues both for and against the distinction between lexical knowledge and encyclopedic knowledge.

Author : Lambertus Christiaan Jozef Barbiers
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781848550209

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Microvariation in Syntactic Doubling by Lambertus Christiaan Jozef Barbiers Pdf

Contains seventeen papers on microvariation in syntactic doubling. This work provides an overview of the syntactic doubling phenomena attested and of the theoretical analyses available. It discusses the syntactic doubling phenomena including, among others, subject pronoun doubling, WH pronoun doubling, clitic doubling and auxiliary doubling.

Author : Sjef Barbiers,Olaf Koeneman,Marika Lekakou,Margreet van der Ham
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 495 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2008-10-17
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781848550216

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Microvariation in Syntactic Doubling by Sjef Barbiers,Olaf Koeneman,Marika Lekakou,Margreet van der Ham Pdf

Contains seventeen papers on microvariation in syntactic doubling. This work provides an overview of the syntactic doubling phenomena attested and of the theoretical analyses available. It discusses the syntactic doubling phenomena including, among others, subject pronoun doubling, WH pronoun doubling, clitic doubling and auxiliary doubling.

Author : (Vol.1)Barbara Lust,Margarita Su¤er,John Whitman,(Vol.2)Barbara Lust,Gabriella Hermon
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 581 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2018-10-24
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781317728801

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Syntactic Theory and First Language Acquisition by (Vol.1)Barbara Lust,Margarita Su¤er,John Whitman,(Vol.2)Barbara Lust,Gabriella Hermon Pdf

Universal Grammar (UG) is a theory of both the fundamental principles for all possible languages and the language faculty in the "initial state" of the human organism. These two volumes approach the study of UG by joint, tightly linked studies of both linguistic theory and human competence for language acquisition. In particular, the volumes collect comparable studies across a number of different languages, carefully analyzed by a wide range of international scholars. The issues surrounding cross-linguistic variation in "Heads, Projections, and Learnability" (Volume 1) and in "Binding, Dependencies, and Learnability" (Volume 2) are arguably the most fundamental in UG. How can principles of grammar be learned by general learning theory? What is biologically programmed in the human species in order to guarantee their learnability? What is the true linguistic representation for these areas of language knowledge? What universals exist across languages? The two volumes summarize the most critical current proposals in each area, and offer both theoretical and empirical evidence bearing on them. Research on first language acquisition and formal learnability theory is placed at the center of debates relative to linguistic theory in each area. The convergence of research across several different disciplines -- linguistics, developmental psychology, and computer science -- represented in these volumes provides a paradigm example of cognitive science.

Author : David M. Steier,Tom M. Mitchell
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 489 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2014-03-05
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781317781257

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Mind Matters by David M. Steier,Tom M. Mitchell Pdf

Based on a symposium honoring the extensive work of Allen Newell -- one of the founders of artificial intelligence, cognitive science, human-computer interaction, and the systematic study of computational architectures -- this volume demonstrates how unifying themes may be found in the diversity that characterizes current research on computers and cognition. The subject matter includes: * an overview of cognitive and computer science by leading researchers in the field; * a comprehensive description of Allen Newell's "Soar" -- a computational architecture he developed as a unified theory of cognition; * commentary on how the Soar theory of cognition relates to important issues in cognitive and computer science; * rigorous treatments of controversial issues in cognition -- methodology of cognitive science, hybrid approaches to machine learning, word-sense disambiguation in understanding material language, and the role of capability processing constraints in architectural theory; * comprehensive and systematic methods for studying architectural evolution in both hardware and software; * a thorough discussion of the use of analytic models in human computer interaction; * extensive reviews of important experiments in the study of scientific discovery and deduction; and * an updated analysis of the role of symbols in information processing by Herbert Simon. Incorporating the research of top scientists inspired by Newell's work, this volume will be of strong interest to a large variety of scientific communities including psychologists, computational linguists, computer scientists and engineers, and interface designers. It will also be valuable to those who study the scientific process itself, as it chronicles the impact of Newell's approach to research, simultaneously delving into each scientific discipline and producing results that transcend the boundaries of those disciplines.