Experimental Syntax and Island Effects
Experimental Syntax and Island Effects

Author: Jon Sprouse

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2013-10-17

Total Pages: 432

ISBN-13: 1107652707

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This volume brings together cutting-edge experimental research from leaders in the fields of linguistics and psycholinguistics to explore the nature of a phenomenon that has long been central to syntactic theory - 'island effects'. The chapters in this volume draw upon recent methodological advances in experimental methods in syntax, also known as 'experimental syntax', to investigate the underlying cognitive mechanisms that give rise to island effects. This volume presents a comprehensive empirical review of a contemporary debate in the field by including contributions from researchers representing a variety of points of view on the nature of island effects. This book is ideal for students and researchers interested in cutting-edge experimental techniques in linguistics, psycholinguistics and psychology.

The Cambridge Handbook of Experimental Syntax
The Cambridge Handbook of Experimental Syntax

Author: Grant Goodall

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2021-12-09

Total Pages: 787

ISBN-13: 1316998606

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Experimental syntax is an area that is rapidly growing as linguistic research becomes increasingly focused on replicable language data, in both fieldwork and laboratory environments. The first of its kind, this handbook provides an in-depth overview of current issues and trends in this field, with contributions from leading international scholars. It pays special attention to sentence acceptability experiments, outlining current best practices in conducting tests, and pointing out promising new avenues for future research. Separate sections review research results from the past 20 years, covering specific syntactic phenomena and language types. The handbook also outlines other common psycholinguistic and neurolinguistic methods for studying syntax, comparing and contrasting them with acceptability experiments, and giving useful perspectives on the interplay between theoretical and experimental linguistics. Providing an up-to-date reference on this exciting field, it is essential reading for students and researchers in linguistics interested in using experimental methods to conduct syntactic research.

Experimental Syntax and Island Effects
Experimental Syntax and Island Effects

Author: Jon Sprouse

Publisher:

Published: 2013

Total Pages:

ISBN-13: 9781107597921

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Leading linguists and psycholinguists use cutting-edge experimental techniques to investigate one of the central phenomena of linguistics, island effects.

Experimental Syntax
Experimental Syntax

Author: Wayne Cowart

Publisher: SAGE

Published: 1997-01-23

Total Pages: 202

ISBN-13: 0761900438

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This book provides a concise yet thorough introduction to methods that linguists can use to study patterns of sentence acceptability in speech. Experimental Syntax shows how to design, execute and analyze an appropriate survey experiment for a well-formed question about a matter of fact relative to sentence acceptability. The book also examines variability and demonstrates a method by which an investigator can make principled decisions as to whether two or more informants who use atypical dialects are using the same atypical dialect.

Lexical-Functional Grammar
Lexical-Functional Grammar

Author: Kersti Börjars

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2019-06-20

Total Pages: 231

ISBN-13: 1107170567

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A step-by-step introduction to lexical-functional grammar, using data from English and a range of typologically diverse languages.

Syntactic Islands
Syntactic Islands

Author: Cedric Boeckx

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2012-08-02

Total Pages: 205

ISBN-13: 1139535978

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The phenomenon of the syntactic 'island' - a clause or structure from which a word cannot be moved - is central to research and study in syntactic theory. This book provides a comprehensive overview of syntactic islands. What are they? How do they arise? Why do they exist? Cedric Boeckx discusses the pros and cons of all the major generative accounts of island effects, and focuses the discussion on whether islands are narrowly syntactic effects, are due to interface factors or are 'merely' performance effects. Thanks to the diversity of island effects, readers are given a unique opportunity to familiarize themselves with all the major research styles and types of analysis in theoretical linguistics and have the chance to reflect on the theoretical implications of concrete natural language examples, allowing them to develop their own synthesis.

Theory and Experiment in Syntax
Theory and Experiment in Syntax

Author: Grant Goodall

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2021-12-30

Total Pages: 345

ISBN-13: 1000516512

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This book reflects on key questions of enduring interest on the nature of syntax, bringing together Grant Goodall’s previous publications and new work exploring how syntactic representations are structured and the affordances of experimental techniques in studying them. The volume sheds light on central issues in the theory of syntax while also elucidating the methods of data collection which inform them. Featuring Goodall’s previous studies of linguistic phenomena in English, Spanish, and Chinese, and complemented by a new introduction and material specific to this volume, the book is divided into four sections around fundamental strands of syntactic theory. The four parts explore the dimensionality of syntactic representations; the relationship between syntactic structure and predicate-argument structure; interactions between subjects and wh-phrases in questions; and more detailed investigations of wh-dependencies but from a more overtly experimental perspective. Taken together, the volume reinforces the connections between these different aspects of syntax by highlighting their respective roles in defining what syntactic objects look like and how the grammar operates on them. This book will be a valuable resource for scholars in linguistics, particularly those with an interest in syntax, psycholinguistics, and Romance linguistics.

Unbounded Dependency Constructions
Unbounded Dependency Constructions

Author: Rui P. Chaves

Publisher: Oxford Surveys in Syntax & Mor

Published: 2020

Total Pages: 323

ISBN-13: 0198784996

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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, theword "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 "It fully supports the course and I would highly recommend it."--Karen Shury, University of West LondonDNUFamily Law takes a practical approach to family law and procedure, supporting students with a range of learning features such as self-test questions, chapter summaries, and diagrams. Case studies and examples are included throughout to show the practicalapplications of the law and are accompanied by worked sample documents.Covers all family law topics taught on the LPC, including both adult and child law, making it suitable for a wide range of modules.Also suitable for legal apprentices or students enrolled on other vocational courses.Providesfocused, clearly written chapters which include summaries and self-test questions to help reinforce

The Cambridge Handbook of Experimental Syntax
The Cambridge Handbook of Experimental Syntax

Author: Grant Goodall

Publisher: Cambridge Handbooks in Languag

Published: 2021-12-09

Total Pages: 787

ISBN-13: 1108474802

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The first of its kind, this Handbook provides an in-depth overview of all current issues and trends in experimental syntax.

Island Constraints
Island Constraints

Author: H. Goodluck

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2013-03-09

Total Pages: 361

ISBN-13: 9401719802

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constraints', which serve to block the association of antecedent to gap under specific syntactic conditions. Of the restrictions identified by Ross and others, the ones we will discuss here are the Complex NP Constraint, exemplified with a relative clause in (3b) and with a nominal complement in (4a), the Subject and wh Island Conditions (Chomsky, 1973) in (4b, c) respectively, and the Adjunct Island Condi tion (see Huang, 1982's Condition on Extraction Domain), illustrated in (4d, e). (4) (a) *John, Mary made the claim that Sally plans to recommend_ for ajob. John, Mary claimed that Sally plans to recommend _ for a job. As for John, Mary heard the rumor that Sally intends to marry him. (b) *John, an article about _just appeared in the newspaper. As for John, an article about him just appeared in the news paper. (c) *Bill, I wonder who likes_. As for Bill, I wonder who likes him. (d) *The heat, we left early because of _. As for the heat, we left early because of it. (e) *The money, I lied so that I could keep_. As for the money, I lied so that I could keep it.