The Dynamics of Lexical Interfaces

Abstract:

Dynamic Syntax is a formal model of utterance description that attempts to articulate and substantiate the claim that human linguistic knowledge is essentially the ability to process language in context. The model provides an explicit demonstration of how interpretation is built up incrementally from the information provided by the words as they are encountered. Drawing from a range of analyses of natural language data, the authors use formal definitions, step-by-step derivations, and detailed lexical definitions to illustrate this new form of syntactic analysis and to show how the model can be applied to a broad range of constructions and languages.

Research areas:

• Dynamic Syntax

Year:

2011

Type of Publication:

Book

Publisher:

University of Chicago Press

Editor:

Ruth Kempson and Eleni Gregoromichelaki and Christine Howes

Series:

CSLI - Studies in Constraint Based Lexicalism

Address:

Chicago, IL

Month:

March

ISBN:

9781575866147