Syntactic Nuts: Hard Cases, Syntactic Theory, and Language Acquisition: 1 (Foundations of Grammar) by Culicover, Peter W - 1999

U.S.A.: Oxford University Press, 1999. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. New copy. 244pp including references and index.This book investigates the architecture of the language faculty by considering what the properties of language reveal about the mental abilities and processes involved in language acquisition. The language faculty, the author argues, must be able not only to accommodate what is general, exceptionless, and universal in language, but must also be capable of dealing with what is irregular, exceptional, and idiosyncratic. In Syntactic Nuts Peter Culicover shows that this is true not only of the lexicon, but for syntax. Marginal and exceptional cases, where there is no straightforward form-meaning correspondence, are dealt with by the language faculty easily and precisely as the general cases. In considering how and why this should be the author argues against the prevailing trend in generative grammar, which takes the learner as either… Read More

Oxford University Press, USA, 1999. Hardcover. Good. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.