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Dynamic Syntax

The Flow of Language Understanding

Dov M Gabbay author Ruth Kempson author Wilfried Meyer-Viol author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:John Wiley and Sons Ltd

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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.

"The framework of Dynamic Syntax is the most exciting new development in syntactic theory to emerge in recent years. As well as providing a full introduction to the framework, this book provides in-depth discussions of relative clause constructions, wh questions and crossover phenomena in a range of languages including English, Arabic and Japanese. This book is likely to become a classic and will be of interest to all those interested in the syntactic modelling of natural languages." Ronnie Cann, University of Edinburgh

"This is an important book and ... the ideas presented in it deserve the close attention of syntacticians and semanticists." Linguist List

ISBN: 9780631176138

Dimensions: 249mm x 173mm x 29mm

Weight: 635g

368 pages