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From Utterances to Speech Acts

By Mikhail Kissine

"Kissine offers a new theory of speech acts which is philosophically sophisticated and builds on work in cognitive science, formal semantics, and linguistic typology. This highly readable, brilliant essay is a major contribution to the field."

--François Recanati, Institut Jean-Nicod


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Title: Processing Syntax and Morphology
Written By: Ina Bornkessel-Schlesewsky
Matthias Schlesewsky
Series Title: Oxford Surveys in Syntax and Morphology
Description:

This book reviews interdisciplinary work on the mental processing of syntax and morphology. It focuses on the fundamental questions at the centre of this research, for example whether language processing proceeds in a serial or a parallel manner; which areas of the brain support the processing of syntactic and morphological information; whether there are neurophysiological correlates of language processing; and the degree to which neurolinguistic findings on syntactic and morphological processing are consistent with theoretical conceptions of syntax and morphology. The authors describe the outcomes of methods in neurophysiology (for example, functional magnetic resonance imaging), behavioural psycholinguistics, and neuropsychological lesion studies, and provide brief introductions to the methods themselves. They extend basic findings at the word and sentence level by considering how the mental processing of syntax and morphology relates to prosody, discourse, semantics, and world knowledge. They have divided the work into four parts concerned with word structure, sentence structure, processing syntax and morphology at the interfaces, and a comparison of different models of syntactic and morphological processing in the neurophysiological domain. The book is directed at graduate students and researchers in theoretical linguistics, psycho- and neurolinguistics, neurophysiology, and psychology.

Publication Year: 2009
Publisher: Oxford University Press
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Linguistic Field(s): Morphology
Psycholinguistics
Syntax
Neurolinguistics
Cognitive Science

Versions:
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 0199207828
ISBN-13: 9780199207824
Pages: 376
Prices: U.S. $ 54.95

 
 
Format: Hardback
ISBN: 019920781X
ISBN-13: 9780199207817
Pages: 376
Prices: U.S. $ 135.00