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, the word '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 psycholinguistic research for the last half century, and offers a
unique insight into the nature of grammatical structures and their
interaction with cognition. The constructions in which these unbounded
dependencies arise are remarkably difficult to model and come with a
rather puzzling array of constraints that have often defied
characterization or proper explanation. This work provides a detailed
survey of these constructions and the factors responsible for their
creation and comprehension, describes new experimental evidence that
sheds light on the nature of the phenomenon, and suggests new avenues
for future research. The volume will be of interest to graduate
students and researchers in the fields of morphosyntax,
psycholinguistics, and cognitive science.
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Theoretical and Experimental Perspectives
Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9780191087929
Publisert
2020
Utgiver
Oxford University Press Academic UK
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
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