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1 online resource (liii, 416 pages) : illustrations. |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Studies in generative grammar ; 104
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Studies in generative grammar ; 104.
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| Note |
Based on presentations at a 2007 conference at Illinois State University. |
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Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| Contents |
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of authors -- Preliminaries -- Re Recursion -- Part I -- Discussing the need for recursion on empirical grounds -- 1. Pirah227; 8211; in need of recursive syntax? -- 2. The fluidity of recursion and its implications -- 3. Syntactic recursion and iteration -- 4. Recursion in conversation: What speakers of Finnish and Japanese know how to do -- 5. What do you think is the proper place of recursion? Conceptual and empirical issues -- Part II -- Formal Issues -- 6. Recursion and the infinitude claim -- 7. Just how big are natural languages? -- 8. Recursion, infinity, and modeling -- 9. How recursive is language? A Bayesian exploration -- Part III -- Evolutionary Perspectives -- 10. Was recursion the key step in the evolution of the human language faculty? -- 11. When clauses refuse to be recursive: An evolutionary perspective -- 12. The use of formal language theory in studies of artificial language learning: A proposal for distinguishing the differences between human and nonhuman animal learners -- 13. Over the top: Recursion as a functional option -- Part IV -- Recursion and the Lexicon -- 14. Lack of recursion in the lexicon: The two-argument restriction -- 15. Kinds of recursion in Adyghe morphology -- 16. Recursion and the Lexicon -- Part V -- Recursion outside Syntax -- 17. A note on recursion in phonology -- 18. Cognitive grouping and recursion in prosody -- 19. Becoming recursive: Toward a computational neuroscience account of recursion in language and thought -- 20. Recursion in severe agrammatism -- Subject index -- Language Index. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Grammar, Comparative and general -- Syntax -- Congresses.
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Grammar, Comparative and general -- Syntax. |
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Grammar, Comparative and general -- Phonology -- Congresses.
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Grammar, Comparative and general -- Phonology. |
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Electronic books.
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Conference papers and proceedings.
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Conference papers and proceedings.
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| Added Author |
Hulst, Harry van der.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Recursion and human language. [Berlin ; New York] : De Gruyter Mouton, ©2010 9783110219241 (DLC) 2010003502 (OCoLC)502676342 |
| ISBN |
9783110219258 (electronic book) |
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3110219255 (electronic book) |
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3110219247 (cloth) |
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9783110219241 (cloth) |
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9783110219241 (hardcover ; alkaline paper) |
| Standard No. |
9786612716300 |
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