Syntactic Complexity across Interfaces

1. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-1-61451-785-6
Verlag: De Gruyter

Buch, Englisch, Band 30, 228 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 510 g

Reihe: Interface Explorations [IE]

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.

Zielgruppe

Theoretical Linguists; Syntacticians

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bayer, Josef

Trotzke, Andreas

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Grammatik, Syntax, Morphologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften Theoretische Linguistik

Über Autor(innen)

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