Syntactic Complexity across Interfaces / / ed. by Andreas Trotzke, Josef Bayer.

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 compl...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus DeG Package 2015 Part 1
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Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2015]
©2015
Year of Publication:2015
Language:English
Series:Interface Explorations [IE] , 30
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Physical Description:1 online resource (228 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • 1. Syntactic complexity across interfaces
  • 2. Against complexity parameters
  • 3. Top-down derivation, recursion, and the model of grammar
  • 4. What small clauses can tell us about complex sentence structure
  • 5. Syntactic and prosodic integration and disintegration in peripheral adverbial clauses and in right dislocation/afterthought
  • 6. On representing anchored parentheses in syntax
  • 7. The development of subordination
  • 8. Avoid Phase: How interfaces provide critical triggers for wh-movement in acquisition
  • 9. Learning structures with displaced arguments
  • Index