LINGUIST List 17.979

Sat Apr 01 2006

Books: Linguistic Theories/Syntax: Gorrell

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Message 1: Syntax and Parsing: Gorrell
Date: 28-Mar-2006
From: Joyce Reid <jreidcup.org>
Subject: Syntax and Parsing: Gorrell


Title: Syntax and Parsing Series Title: Cambridge Studies Published: 2006 Publisher: Cambridge University Press
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Author: Paul Gorrell Paperback: ISBN: 0521024099 Pages: 192 Price: U.K. £ 16.99
Paperback: ISBN: 0521024099 Pages: 192 Price: U.S. $ 28.99
Abstract:

This book examines the role of syntax in theories of sentencecomprehension, and argues for a distinct processing component which isdevoted to the recovery of syntactic structure and which utilizes thecontrasting types of information found within a Government-Binding grammar.Paul Gorrell contrasts the primary relations (dominance and precedence) andsecondary relations (case assignment, theta-role assignment, etc.) in aphrase-structure tree, and shows how this computational distinction ofinformation types is reflected in the internal structure of the parser,which consists of two sub-components: a structure builder (responsible forcreating nodes in a tree and positing primary relations between them), anda structure interpreter (responsible for analysing the tree in terms ofsecondary relations). This model can also predict garden-path phenomena inthe processing of verb-final clauses.

Acknowledgments;1. Introduction;2. Properties of the grammar;3. Analyses of previous work;4. Properties of the parser;5. Modularity and structural determinism;6. Conclusion; Reference;Index.


Linguistic Field(s): Linguistic Theories                             Syntax
Written In: English (eng )

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