| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 330 pages). |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Language, speech, and communication
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Language, speech, and communication.
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| Note |
"A Bradford book." |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-319) and index. |
| Contents |
Grammar and Information Structure -- Rules, Constituents, and Fragments -- Issues of Power and Explanation -- Grammar as an Applicative System -- Intuitive Basis of Combinatory Categorial Grammars -- Pure Categorial Grammar -- Interpretation and Predicate-Argument Structure -- Coordination -- Bluebird -- Thrush -- Starling -- Explaining Constraints on Natural Grammar -- Intrinsic Constraints Limiting the Set of Possible Rules -- Linguistic Constraints on Unbounded Dependencies -- Linguistic Constraints on Bounded Dependencies -- Quantification in CCG -- Summary: Surface Structure and Interpretation -- Structure and Intonation -- Surface Structure and Intonation Structure -- Two Intonation Contours and Their Functions -- Theme and Rheme -- Grammar and Information Structure -- Intonation and the Simplex Clause -- Intonation in Complex Constructions -- Coordination and Word Order -- Cross-Serial Dependencies in Dutch -- Word Order in Dutch -- Verb Raising as Composition -- Equi Verbs -- Argument Cluster Composition -- Relative Clauses -- Subject and Object Extraction from Embedded Clauses -- Dutch Main-clause Order -- Interaction of Word order and Quantifier Scope -- On the Rarity of Crossing Dependencies -- Summary of the Dutch Fragment -- Gapping and the Order of Constituents -- Gapping and SOV Word Order -- Gapping and VSO Word Order -- Gapping and SVO Word Order -- Other Elliptical Phenomena -- A Cautious Conclusion -- Computation and Performance -- Combinators and Grammars -- Why Categories and Combinators? |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Grammar, Comparative and general -- Syntax.
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Grammar, Comparative and general -- Syntax. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Steedman, Mark. Syntactic process. Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2000 0262194201 (DLC) 99027489 (OCoLC)41143035 |
| ISBN |
0585227551 (electronic book) |
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9780585227559 (electronic book) |
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0262194201 |
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9780262194204 |
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0262692686 |
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9780262692687 |
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