Binding: Paperback
Description: 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.
Title: Unbounded Dependency Constructions Theoretical And Experimental Perspectives
Author(s): Putnam Michael T. (Associate Professor Of German And Linguistics Associate Professor Of German And Linguistics Penn State University)
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Barcode: 9780198785002
Pages: 336 Pages
Publication Date: 2/15/2021
Series: Oxford Surveys in Syntax & Morphology
Category: Cognition & Cognitive Psychology