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"This book is a contribution to the ongoing debate in agrammatism, an acquired language disorder resulting from left hemisphere brain damage. The aim of the book is to give a comprehensive account of agrammatism and outlines and critically examines the different accounts of agrammatic production and asyntactic comprehension, to address morphological and structural properties of Moroccan Arabic agrammatic speech, and to put under scrutiny Friedmann and Grodzinsky's (1997) syntactic account of tense and agreement in production and across modalities. The book attempts to answer two important research questions: are tense and agreement dissociated as predicted by the Tree-Pruning Hypothesis (Friedmann and Grodzinsky, 1997); and, is the tense/agreement dissociation 'production-specific', or does it extend to comprehension and grammaticality judgment. A third objective of the book is to examine the comprehension abilities of four Moroccan Arabic-speaking agrammatic subjects in the light of the Trace Deletion Hypothesis (Grodzinsky, 1995 a, b). A major research question is whether or not active sentences and subject relative sentences are understood better than object relative sentences. The book takes the view the tense/agreement dissociation reported for Hebrew (Friedmann and Grodzinsky, 1997) and German (Wenzlaff and Clahsen, 2003) can be replicated in Moroccan Arabic. However, the syntactic account as outlined in Friedmann and Grodzinsky (1997) cannot account for the tense/agreement dissociation as Moroccan Arabic has the agreement node above the tense node. In addition, the Trace Deletion Hypothesis cannot account for the comprehension difficulties experienced by the four Moroccan Arabic-speaking agrammatic subjects; the case is so because both subject relatives and object relatives are understood below chance level. Based on data collected through different experimental methods, it is argued that the deficit in agrammatism cannot be explained in terms of a structural account, but rather in terms of a processing account. Access to syntactic knowledge tends to be blocked; grammatical knowledge, however, is entirely intact."--Publisher's description.

Agrammatism. --- Arabic language --- Semitic languages --- Agrammatic aphasia --- Agrammatologia --- Grammatical speech disorders --- Speech disorders, Grammatical --- Aphasia --- Grammaticality (Linguistics)

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Grammaticality (Linguistics) --- Grammar, Comparative and general --- Generative grammar --- Grammaticalité --- Grammaire comparée et générale --- Grammaire générative --- Grammaticalité --- Grammaire comparée et générale --- Grammaire générative

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Aphasia --- Linguistics. --- Agrammatism --- Agrammatic aphasia --- Agrammatologia --- Grammatical speech disorders --- Speech disorders, Grammatical --- Grammaticality (Linguistics) --- Linguistic --- psychology. --- Linguistics --- psychology --- Psycholinguistics --- Neuropathology --- Aphasia - psychology

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Grammar is said to be about defining all and only the 'good' sentences of a language, implying that there are other, 'bad' sentences - but it is hard to pin those down. A century ago, grammarians did not think that way, and they were right: linguists can and should dispense with 'starred sentences'. Corpus data support a different model: individuals develop positive grammatical habits of growing refinement, but nothing is ever ruled out. The contrasting models entail contrasting pictures of human nature; our final chapter shows that grammatical theory is not value-neutral but has an ethical dimension.

Grammar, Comparative and general. --- Grammaticality (Linguistics). --- Grammaticality (Linguistics) --- Grammar, Comparative and general --- Languages & Literatures --- Philology & Linguistics --- Grammaticalité --- Grammaire comparée et générale --- Grammaticalness (Linguistics) --- Acceptability (Linguistics) --- Linguistics --- Comparative grammar --- Grammar --- Grammar, Philosophical --- Grammar, Universal --- Language and languages --- Philosophical grammar --- Philology --- Grammar, Comparative --- Cultural Imperialism. --- Grammar Acquisition. --- Grammar. --- Grammaticality. --- Syntax.

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This book contains the first in-depth corpus-based description of structural nativization at the lexis-grammar interface in Indian English, the largest institutionalized second-language variety of English world-wide. For a set of three ditransitive verbs give, send and offer -collocational patterns, verb-complementational preferences and correlations between collocational and verb-complementational routines are described. The present study is based on the comparison of the Indian and the British components of the International Corpus of English as well as a 100-million-wor

English language --- Lexicology. --- Grammaticality (Linguistics) --- Linguistic analysis (Linguistics) --- Analysis, Linguistic (Linguistics) --- Analysis (Philosophy) --- Grammar, Comparative and general --- Grammaticalness (Linguistics) --- Acceptability (Linguistics) --- Linguistics --- Language and languages --- Germanic languages --- Grammar. --- Usage. --- Lexicology