Syntactic complexity : diachrony, acquisition, neuro-cognition, evolution /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Amsterdam :
John Benjamins Pub. Co.,
2009.
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| Series: | Typological studies in language ;
v. 85 |
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Introduction (by Givon, T.)
- 2. Part I. Diachrony
- 3. From nominal to clausal morphosyntax: Complexity via expansion (by Heine, Bernd)
- 4. Re(e)volving complexity: Adding intonation (by Mithun, Marianne)
- 5. Multiple routes to clause union: The diachrony of complex verb phrases (by Givon, T.)
- 6. On the origins of serial verb constructions in Kalam (by Pawley, Andrew)
- 7. A quantitative approach to the development of complex predicates: The case of Swedish Pseudo-Coordination with sitta "sit" (by Hilpert, Martin)
- 8. Elements of complex structures, where recursion isn't: The case of relativization (by Shibatani, Masayoshi)
- 9. Nominalization and the origin of subordination (by Deutscher, Guy)
- 10. The co-evolution of syntactic and pragmatic complexity: Diachronic and cross-linguistic aspects of pseudoclefts (by Koops, Christian)
- 11. Two pathways of grammatical evolution (by Dahl, Osten)
- 12. Part II. Child language
- 13. On the role of frequency and similarity in the acquisition of subject and non-subject relative clauses (by Diessel, Holger)
- 14. 'Starting small' effects in the acquisition of early relative constructions in Spanish (by Rojas Nieto, Cecilia)
- 15. The ontogeny of complex verb phrases: How children learn to negotiate fact and desire (by Givon, T.)
- 16. Part III. Cognition and neurology
- 17. Syntactic complexity versus concatenation in a verbal production task (by Barker, Marjorie)
- 18. The emergence of linguistic complexity (by MacWhinney, Brian)
- 19. Cognitive and neural underpinnings of syntactic complexity (by Fernandez-Duque, Diego)
- 20. Neural mechanisms of recursive processing in cognitive and linguistic complexity (by Tucker, Don M.)
- 21. Syntactic complexity in the brain (by Friederici, Angela D.)
- 22. Part IV. Biology and evolution
- 23. Neural plasticity: The driving force underlying the complexity of the brain (by Tublitz, Nathan)
- 24. Recursion: Core of complexity or artifact of analysis? (by Bickerton, Derek)
- 25. Index.