Postverbal Behavior - Couverture souple

Wasow, Thomas

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1575864029 ISBN 13 : 9781575864020

Editeur : Centre for the Study of Language & Information, 2002

Synopsis

Compared to many languages, English has relatively fixed word order, but the ordering among phrases following the verb exhibits a good deal of variation. This monograph explores factors that influence the choice among possible orders of postverbal elements, testing hypotheses using a combination of corpus studies and psycholinguistic experiments. Wasow's final chapters explore how studies of language use bear on issues in linguistic theory, with attention to the roles of quantitative data and Chomsky's arguments against the use of statistics and probability in linguistics.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Thomas Wasow is professor of linguistics and philosophy and director of the Symbolic Systems Program at Stanford University.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Centre for the Study of Language & Information
• Date d'édition: 2002
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1575864029
• ISBN 13: 9781575864020
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 199
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• Personne responsable: non disponible