Publishing Partner: Cambridge University Press CUP Extra Publisher Login
amazon logo
More Info

New from Cambridge University Press!

ad

The Structural Design of Language

By Thomas S. Stroik, Michael T. Putnam

In this book, Stroik and Putnam take on Turing's challenge. They argue that the narrow syntax – the lexicon, the Numeration, and the computational system – must reside, for reasons of conceptual necessity, within the performance systems.

Academic Paper


Title: A Morpheme-Based Model of Nonsentential Utterance Production
Paper URL: https://www.journals.uio.no/index.php/osla/article/viewFile/6/21
Author: Shinji Ido
Email: click here to access email
Homepage: http://ido.ifdef.jp/
Institution: University of Sydney
Linguistic Field: Linguistic Theories; Morphology; Syntax
Abstract: The present study is an attempt to account for non-sentential utterance (NSU) production without assuming the existence of a 'syntactically full sentence' for every NSU. The model for NSU production that derives from this study has the following four advantages over the popular 'constituent-omission' model: It 1) accounts for the production of NSUs that native speakers variably 'reconstruct', 2) explains why in certain contexts pro-drop cannot occur in languages that have morphologically marked subject-verb agreement, 3) models the production of NSUs without devising separate production processes for 'ellipses' and 'fragments', and 4) predicts what constituents have to be present in a given NSU. It also keeps the involvement of syntax in NSU production to a minimum.
Type: Individual Paper
Status: Completed
Publication Info: Behrens and Fabricius-Hansen (eds.). Structuring Information in Discourse: The explicit/implicit dimension.
URL: https://www.journals.uio.no/index.php/osla/article/viewFile/6/21


Back
Add a new paper
Return to Academic Papers main page
Return to Directory of Linguists main page