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Standard Basque
A Progressive Grammar
ISBN: 9780262546546
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: November 29, 2022
The first modern pedagogically oriented reference to the grammar of standard Basque (Euskara Batua), in two volumes: Part 1 presents detailed grammar lessons, Part 2 glosses and supplementary materials.
Hypothesis A / Hypothesis B
Linguistic Explorations in Honor of David M. Perlmutter
ISBN: 9780262633567
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: December 30, 2009
Essays reflecting the influence of the versatile linguist David M. Perlmutter, covering topics from theoretical morphology to sign language phonology.
Contemporary Views on Architecture and Representations in Phonology
Contemporary Views on Architecture and Representations in Phonology
ISBN: 9780262681728
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: March 20, 2009
Leading phonologists discuss contemporary work on the topics of metrical theory, feature theory, syllable theory, and the relation among grammatical modules.
The Computational Nature of Language Learning and Evolution
The Computational Nature of Language Learning and Evolution
ISBN: 9780262513395
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: August 21, 2009
The introduction of a mathematical and computational framework within which to analyze the interplay between language learning and language evolution.
Foundational Issues in Linguistic Theory
Foundational Issues in Linguistic Theory
Essays in Honor of Jean-Roger Vergnaud
ISBN: 9780262562331
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: May 9, 2008
Essays by leading theoretical linguists—including Noam Chomsky, B. Elan Dresher, Richard Kayne, Howard Lasnik, Morris Halle, Norbert Hornstein, Henk van Riemsdijk, and Edwin Williams—reflect on Jean-Roger Vergnaud's influence in the field and discuss current theoretical issues
The Boundaries of Babel, second edition
The Boundaries of Babel
The Brain and the Enigma of Impossible Languages
ISBN: 9780262029858
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: November 13, 2015
The new edition of a pioneering book that examines research at the intersection of contemporary theoretical linguistics and the cognitive neurosciences.
The Boundaries of Babel
The Brain and the Enigma of Impossible Languages
ISBN: 9780262515061
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: August 13, 2010
An exploration of what research at the intersection of contemporary theoretical linguistics and the cognitive neurosciences can reveal about the constraints on the apparently chaotic variation in human languages.
WH-Movement
Moving On
ISBN: 9780262532792
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: May 19, 2006
Wh-movement—the phenomenon by which interrogative words appear at the beginning of interrogative sentences—is one of the central displacement operations of human language. Noam Chomsky's 1977 paper...
Syntactic Structures Revisited
Syntactic Structures Revisited
Contemporary Lectures on Classic Transformational Theory
ISBN: 9780262621335
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: February 4, 2000
with Marcela Depiante and Arthur StepanovThis book provides an introduction to some classic ideas and analyses of transformational generative grammar, viewed both on their own terms and from a more...
Phrase Structure Composition and Syntactic Dependencies
Phrase Structure Composition and Syntactic Dependencies
ISBN: 9780262562089
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: August 20, 2004
In Phrase Structure Composition and Syntactic Dependencies, Robert Frank explores an approach to syntactic theory that weds the Tree Adjoining Grammar (TAG) formalism with the minimalist framework....
Standard Basque
A Progressive Grammar
ISBN: 9780262546546
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: November 29, 2022
Hypothesis A / Hypothesis B
Linguistic Explorations in Honor of David M. Perlmutter
ISBN: 9780262633567
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: December 30, 2009
Contemporary Views on Architecture and Representations in Phonology
Contemporary Views on Architecture and Representations in Phonology
ISBN: 9780262681728
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: March 20, 2009
The Computational Nature of Language Learning and Evolution
The Computational Nature of Language Learning and Evolution
ISBN: 9780262513395
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: August 21, 2009
Foundational Issues in Linguistic Theory
Foundational Issues in Linguistic Theory
Essays in Honor of Jean-Roger Vergnaud
ISBN: 9780262562331
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: May 9, 2008
The Boundaries of Babel, second edition
The Boundaries of Babel
The Brain and the Enigma of Impossible Languages
ISBN: 9780262029858
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: November 13, 2015
The Boundaries of Babel
The Brain and the Enigma of Impossible Languages
ISBN: 9780262515061
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: August 13, 2010
WH-Movement
Moving On
ISBN: 9780262532792
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: May 19, 2006
Syntactic Structures Revisited
Syntactic Structures Revisited
Contemporary Lectures on Classic Transformational Theory
ISBN: 9780262621335
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: February 4, 2000
Phrase Structure Composition and Syntactic Dependencies
Phrase Structure Composition and Syntactic Dependencies
ISBN: 9780262562089
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: August 20, 2004