Syntactic Complexity across Interfaces

Josef Bayer

ISBN 10: 1614517851 / ISBN 13: 9781614517856

Published by De Gruyter Mouton, De Gruyter Mouton Feb 2015, 2015

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This item is printed on demand - Print on Demand Titel. Neuware -Syntactic complexity has always been a matter of intense investigation in formal linguistics. Since complex syntax is clearly evidenced by sentential embedding and since embedding of one clause/phrase in another is taken to signal recursivity of the grammar, the capacity of computing syntactic complexity is of central interest to the recent hypothesis that syntactic recursion is the defining property of natural language. In the light of more recent claims according to which complex syntax is not a universal property of all living languages, the issue of how to detect and define syntactic complexity has been revived with a combination of classical and new arguments. This volume contains contributions about the formal complexity of natural language, about specific issues of clausal embedding, and about syntactic complexity in terms of grammar-external interfaces in the domain of language acquisition.Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Genthiner Strasse 13, 10785 Berlin 234 pp. Englisch.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Syntactic Complexity across Interfaces
• Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton, De Gruyter Mouton Feb 2015
• Publication Date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1614517851
• ISBN 13: 9781614517856
• Binding: Buch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 236W x 160H x 19D millimeters 236 millimeters width by 160 millimeters height by 19 millimeters depth
• Weight: 510 grams

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Synopsis

Syntactic complexity has always been a matter of intense investigation in formal linguistics. Since complex syntax is clearly evidenced by sentential embedding and since embedding of one clause/phrase in another is taken to signal recursivity of the grammar, the capacity of computing syntactic complexity is of central interest to the recent hypothesis that syntactic recursion is the defining property of natural language. In the light of more recent claims according to which complex syntax is not a universal property of all living languages, the issue of how to detect and define syntactic complexity has been revived with a combination of classical and new arguments. This volume contains contributions about the formal complexity of natural language, about specific issues of clausal embedding, and about syntactic complexity in terms of grammar-external interfaces in the domain of language acquisition.

About the Author

Andreas Trotzke and Josef Bayer, University of Konstanz, Germany.