The grammatical basis of linguistic performance: Language use and acquisition (Current studies in linguistics series) - Hardcover

Berwick, Robert C

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0262021927 ISBN 13: 9780262021920

Publisher: MIT Press, 1984

Synopsis

Written primarily from the perspective of computational theory, Grammatical Basis of Linguistic Performance presents a synthesis of some major recent developments in grammatical theory and its application to models of language performance.

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About the Author

Robert C. Berwick is Professor of Computational Linguistics and Computer Science and Engineering, in the Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems and the Institute for Data, Systems, and Society at MIT and the author of Computational Complexity and Natural Language and The Acquisition of Syntactic Knowledge, both published by the MIT Press.

Review

" A serious and useful treatment of whether government-binding or lexical-functional grammars provide a better foundation for models of language performance.... Berwick and Weinberg assert that the recent criticisms of transformational grammar are largely based on obsolete versions of transformational theory and on ad hoc assumptions about the nature of parsing and language learning. When Chomsky's modern version of govement-binding theory is adopted, in conjunction with an alternative set of assumptions about language performance, the authors find reason to herald a revival of transformational grammar as a serious candidate for a theory of language use." - "Contemporary Psychology"

& quot; A serious and useful treatment of whether government-binding or lexical-functional grammars provide a better foundation for models of language performance.... Berwick and Weinberg assert that the recent criticisms of transformational grammar are largely based on obsolete versions of transformational theory and on ad hoc assumptions about the nature of parsing and language learning. When Chomsky's modern version of govement-binding theory is adopted, in conjunction with an alternative set of assumptions about language performance, the authors find reason to herald a revival of transformational grammar as a serious candidate for a theory of language use.& quot; - Contemporary Psychology

"A serious and useful treatment of whether government-binding or lexical-functional grammars provide a better foundation for models of language performance.... Berwick and Weinberg assert that the recent criticisms of transformational grammar are largely based on obsolete versions of transformational theory and on ad hoc assumptions about the nature of parsing and language learning. When Chomsky's modern version of govement-binding theory is adopted, in conjunction with an alternative set of assumptions about language performance, the authors find reason to herald a revival of transformational grammar as a serious candidate for a theory of language use."- "Contemporary Psychology"

Edition details

• Publisher: MIT Press
• Publication date: 1984
• ISBN 10: 0262021927
• ISBN 13: 9780262021920
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 325