LINGUIST List 13.1461

Thu May 23 2002

Books: Dynamic Syntax,D.Gabbay,R.Kempson,W.Meyer-Viol

Editor for this issue: Dina Kapetangianni <dinalinguistlist.org>

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1. tmac, Dynamic Syntax: The Flow of Language Understanding by Ruth Kempson, Wilfried Meyer-Viol and Dov Gabbay

Title:Dynamic Syntax 
Subtitle:The Flow of Language Understanding
			
Publication Year: 2000
			
Publisher: Blackwell Publishers 
 http://www.blackwellpublishers.co.uk/
			
Book URL: http://www.blackwellpub.com/asp/book.asp?ref=0631176128
			
 
Author: Dov Gabbay 
Author: Ruth Kempson 
Author: Wilfried Meyer-Viol 
				

Hardback: ISBN: 0631176128, Pages: 360, Price: 73.95
Comment: *30% off with a subscription to Blackwell's LL+
Paperback: ISBN: 0631176136, Pages: 360, Price: 36.95
Comment: *30% off with a subscription to Blackwell's LL+
			
Abstract:

This ground-breaking volume sets out an original model of the dynamics
of language processing, which can be used to explain the structural
properties of language in a simple and elegant way. The model is
introduced both informally and formally, and is applied to a range of
languages.


Alongside formal definitions, the authors use step-by-step derivations
and detailed lexical definitions to illustrate this new form of
syntactic analysis and to show how the model can be applied to a broad
range of languages. In this way, the reader gets a sense of the rich
potential the framework provides for general application to linguistic
analysis.

In bringing together explanations of knowledge of language, and the
way language is used in parsing, the book challenges basic assumptions
of linguistic theory, and is an essential read for anyone interested
in what it means to know a language.

Lingfield(s):Syntax
			 
Written In:English (Language Code: ENG)