Unbounded Dependency Constructions: Theoretical and Experimental Perspectives by Chaves, Rui P.

Unbounded Dependency Constructions: Theoretical and Experimental Perspectives (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780198784999)

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Unbounded Dependency Constructions: Theoretical and Experimental Perspectives by Chaves, Rui P.

Unbounded Dependency Constructions: Theoretical and Experimental Perspectives

$120.00
Unbounded Dependency Constructions: Theoretical and Experimental Perspectives by Chaves, Rui P.

Unbounded Dependency Constructions: Theoretical and Experimental Perspectives

$120.00
Format: Hardcover
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This book is about one of the most intriguing features of human communication systems: the fact that words that go together in meaning can occur arbitrarily far away from each other. In the sentence This is technology that most people think about, but rarely consider the implications of, the word 'technology' is interpreted as if it were simultaneously next to the words 'about' and 'of'. This kind of long-distance dependency has been the subject of intense linguistic and psycholinguistic research for the last half century, and offers a unique insight into the nature of grammatical structures and their interaction with cognition. The constructions in which these unbounded dependencies arise are remarkably difficult to model and come with a rather puzzling array of constraints that have often defied characterization or proper explanation. This work provides a detailed survey of these constructions and the factors responsible for their creation and comprehension, describes new experimental evidence that sheds light on the nature of the phenomenon, and suggests new avenues for future research. The volume will be of interest to graduate students and researchers in the fields of morphosyntax, psycholinguistics, and cognitive science.

Author: Rui P. Chaves, Michael T. Putnam
ISBN-10: 0198784996
ISBN-13: 9780198784999
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Language: English
Published: 02/15/2021
Pages: 324
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.80lbs
Size: 9.60h x 6.60w x 1.00d
By Rui P. Chaves
By Rui P. Chaves
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Rui P. Chaves, Associate Professor of Linguistics, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York, Michael T. Putnam, Associate Professor of German and Linguistics, Penn State University

Rui P. Chaves is Associate Professor of Linguistics at the University at Buffalo, the State University of New York. His work focuses on how linguistic knowledge interfaces with cognition, and in particular with probabilistic information that shapes linguistic behavior. He has specialized in formally explicit construction-based models of grammar.

Michael T. Putnam is Associate Professor of German and Linguistics at Penn State University. His research focuses on achieving a more refined understanding of linguistic phenomena along the morphology-syntax-semantics continuum. He has a particular interest in Germanic languages and the effects of bilingualism across the lifespan.

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