
Syntax and Parsing
Paul Gorrell(Author)
Cambridge University Press
Published on 13. February 2006
Book
Paperback/Softback
196 pages
978-0-521-02409-9 (ISBN)
Description
This book examines the role of syntax in theories of sentence comprehension, and argues for a distinct processing component which is devoted to the recovery of syntactic structure and which utilizes the contrasting types of information found within a Government-Binding grammar. Paul Gorrell contrasts the primary relations (dominance and precedence) and secondary relations (case assignment, theta-role assignment, etc.) in a phrase-structure tree, and shows how this computational distinction of information types is reflected in the internal structure of the parser, which consists of two sub-components: a structure builder (responsible for creating nodes in a tree and positing primary relations between them), and a structure interpreter (responsible for analysing the tree in terms of secondary relations). This model can also predict garden-path phenomena in the processing of verb-final clauses.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
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Paperback (trade)
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Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 11 mm
Weight
293 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-521-02409-9 (9780521024099)
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Syntax and Parsing
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Content
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.