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  • Complexity of Linguistic Structures, Simplicity of Language Mechanisms

    Inaugural lecture delivered on Thursday 5 November 2020

    by Luigi Rizzi ...
    Series series Leçons inaugurales
    For over sixty years, researchers from across the world have been collaborating in a vast endeavour within what is known as “generative linguistics”, to describe human languages. The founding question of this research is related to the unlimited nature of linguistic possibilities. It has led to the formulation of hypotheses on linguistic combinatorics, its invariant core, and the mechanisms of ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Comparative Syntax and Language Acquisition

    by Luigi Rizzi ...
    Series series Routledge Leading Linguists
    In this collection of essays, the author addresses the central issues in syntax theory, comparative syntax and the theoretically conscious study of language acquisition. Key topics are explored, including the properties of null elements and the theory of parameters. Some of the essays presented here have been highly influential in their field, while others are published for the first time. ... Read more

    $47.99 USD

  • The Acquisition of Syntax

    Studies in Comparative Developmental Linguistics

    Edited by Marc-Ariel Friedemann, Luigi Rizzi ...
    Series series Longman Linguistics Library
    This volume contains a collection of studies that survey recent research in developmental linguistics, illustrating the fruitful interaction between comparative syntax and language acquisition. The contributors each analyse a well defined range of acquisition data, aiming to derive them from primitive differences between child and adult grammar. The book covers cross-linguistic and cross ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

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  • The Cambridge Handbook of Generative Syntax

    Edited by Marcel den Dikken ...
    Series series Cambridge Handbooks in Language and Linguistics
    Syntax – the study of sentence structure – has been at the centre of generative linguistics from its inception and has developed rapidly and in various directions. The Cambridge Handbook of Generative Syntax provides a historical context for what is happening in the field of generative syntax today, a survey of the various generative approaches to syntactic structure available in the literature ... Read more

    $60.69 USD

  • I Speak, Therefore I Am

    Seventeen Thoughts About Language

    Translated by Ian Roberts ...
    by Andrea Moro ...
    There are no men so dull and stupid, not even idiots, as to be incapable of joining together different words, and thereby constructing a declaration by which to make their thoughts understood.... On the other hand, there is no other animal, however perfect or happily circumstanced which can do the like.—DescartesLanguage is more like a snowflake than a giraffe's neck. Its specific properties are ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • The Cambridge Handbook of Historical Syntax

    Edited by Adam Ledgeway, Ian Roberts ...
    Series series Cambridge Handbooks in Language and Linguistics
    Change is an inherent feature of all aspects of language, and syntax is no exception. While the synchronic study of syntax allows us to make discoveries about the nature of syntactic structure, the study of historical syntax offers even greater possibilities. Over recent decades, the study of historical syntax has proven to be a powerful scientific tool of enquiry with which to challenge and ... Read more

    $50.09 USD

  • Rethinking Parameters

    Edited by Luis Eguren, Olga Fernandez-Soriano, Amaya Mendikoetxea ...
    Series series Oxford Studies in Comparative Syntax
    Parameters of linguistic variation were originally conceived, within the chomskyan Principles and Parameters Theory, as UG-determined options that were associated with grammatical principles and had a rich deductive structure. This characterization of parametric differences among languages has changed significantly over the years, especially so with the advent of Minimalism. This book collects a ... Read more

    $40.49 USD

  • Comparative Perspectives on Language Acquisition

    A Tribute to Clive Perdue

    Edited by Dr. Marzena Watorek, Sandra Benazzo, Maya Hickmann ...
    Series Book 61 - Second Language Acquisition
    This volume aims to provide a broad view of second language acquisition within a comparative perspective that addresses results concerning adult and child learners across a variety of source and target languages. It brings together contributions at the forefront of language acquisition research that consider a wide range of open questions: What are the precise mechanisms underlying acquisition? ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • From Grammar to Meaning

    The Spontaneous Logicality of Language

    Edited by Ivano Caponigro, Carlo Cecchetto ...
    In recent years, the study of formal semantics and formal pragmatics has grown tremendously, showing that core aspects of language meaning can be explained by a few principles. These principles are grounded in the logic that is behind - and tightly intertwined with - the grammar of human language. In this book, some of the most prominent figures in linguistics, including Noam Chomsky and Barbara H ... Read more

    $43.49 USD

  • Symmetry in Syntax

    Merge, Move and Labels

    by Barbara Citko ...
    Series Book 129 - Cambridge Studies in Linguistics
    While much has been written on asymmetric aspects of sentence structure, symmetric aspects have been largely ignored, or claimed to be non-existent. Does symmetry in syntax exist, and if it does, how do we account for it? In this book, Barbara Citko sets out to tackle these questions and offers a unified approach to a number of phenomena that have so far been studied only in isolation. Focusing on ... Read more

    $118.89 USD

  • The Secrets of Words

    by Noam Chomsky, Andrea Moro ...
    Noam Chomsky and linguist Andrea Moro explore language, the history of science, Big Data and AI, and the mysteries of the human brain.Influential linguist Noam Chomsky and his longtime colleague Andrea Moro have a wide-ranging conversation, touching on such topics as language and linguistics, the history of science, and the relation between language and the brain. Chomsky discusses today’s ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Analysing English Sentences

    by Andrew Radford ...
    Series series Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics
    Andrew Radford has acquired an unrivalled reputation over the past thirty years for writing syntax textbooks in which difficult concepts are clearly explained without the excessive use of technical jargon. Analysing English Sentences continues in this tradition, offering a well-structured introduction to English syntax and contemporary syntactic theory which is supported throughout with learning ... Read more

    $50.09 USD