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Grammar --- Government-binding theory (Linguistics) --- Liage et gouvernement [Théorie de ] --- Principes en parameters (Taalwetenschap) --- Principes et paramètres (Linguistique) --- Principles and parameters (Linguistics) --- Regeer- en bindtheorie (Taalwetenschap) --- Grammar, Comparative and general --- Théorie du liage et du gouvernement (Linguistique) --- Syntaxe --- Syntax --- Syntax. --- 801.56 --- -Principles and parameters (Linguistics) --- Generative grammar --- Comparative grammar --- Grammar, Philosophical --- Grammar, Universal --- Language and languages --- Philosophical grammar --- Linguistics --- Philology --- Binding theory (Linguistics) --- Government and binding (Linguistics) --- Syntaxis. Semantiek --- Grammar, Comparative --- 801.56 Syntaxis. Semantiek --- Government-binding theory (Linguistics). --- Principles and parameters (Linguistics). --- Théorie du liage et du gouvernement (Linguistique) --- Principes et paramètres (Linguistique) --- Grammar [Comparative and general ] --- Grammar, Comparative and general - Syntax --- Grammar, Comparative and general Syntax

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English language --- Grammar --- -English language --- -Generative grammar --- Grammar, Comparative and general --- -Comparative grammar --- Grammar, Philosophical --- Grammar, Universal --- Language and languages --- Philosophical grammar --- Linguistics --- Philology --- Grammar, Generative --- Grammar, Transformational --- Grammar, Transformational generative --- Transformational generative grammar --- Transformational grammar --- Psycholinguistics --- Germanic languages --- Syntax --- Grammar, Comparative --- Derivation --- Generative grammar. --- Grammar, Generative. --- Syntax. --- -Grammar, Generative --- -Grammar, Comparative and general --- Comparative grammar --- Generative grammar --- Grammar, Comparative and general Syntax

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In this book, Peter Culicover introduces the analysis of natural language within the broader question of how language works - of how people use languages to configure words and morphemes in order to express meanings. He focuses both on the syntactic and morphosyntactic devices that languages use, and on the conceptual structures that correspond to particular aspects of linguistic form. He seeks to explain linguistic forms and in the process to show how these correspond with meanings. The book's clear, step-by-step exposition is presented within the Simpler Syntax framework whose development has been led by the author and Ray Jackendoff over the last fifteen years. This integrates syntactic theory with the representation of conceptual structure and casts fresh light on the interface between syntax and semantics. It also enables elegant and economical analyses of natural language phenomena without recourse to such abstract devices as functional heads and uniform binary branching. Peter Culicover opens his account with an overview of the nature of language and the aims of its analysis. He then divides the book into parts devoted to syntactic categories, syntactic structure and argument structure, argument realization, unbounded dependencies, and clausal structure. He provides exercises, problems, and suggestions for further reading throughout the book.

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This volume explores how human languages become what they are, why they differ from one another in certain ways but not in others, and why they change in the ways that they do. Given that language is a universal creation of the human mind, the puzzle is why there are different languages at all: why do we not all speak the same language? Moreover, while there is considerable variation, in some ways grammars do show consistent patterns: why are languages similar in those respects, and why are those particular patterns preferred?Peter Culicover proposes that the solution to these puzzles is a constructional one. Grammars consist of constructions that carry out the function of expressing universal conceptual structure. While there are in principle many different ways of accomplishing this task, languages are under press to reduce constructional complexity. The result is that there is constructional change in the direction of less complexity, and grammatical patterns emerge that more efficiently reflect conceptual universals. The volume is divided into three parts: the first establishes the theoretical foundations; the second explores variation in argument structure, grammatical functions, and A-bar constructions, drawing on data from a variety of languages including English and Plains Cree; and the third examines constructional change, focusing primarily on Germanic. The study ends with observations and speculations on parameter theory, analogy, the origins of typological patterns, and Greenbergian 'universals'.

Grammar --- Historical linguistics --- Language and languages --- Linguistic change. --- Variation. --- Linguistic change --- Change, Linguistic --- Language change --- Characterology of speech --- Language diversity --- Language subsystems --- Language variation --- Linguistic diversity --- Variation in language --- Variation