Grammar and complexity : language at the intersection of competence and performance / Peter W. Culicover.

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pt. I Theoretical background -- 1. Varieties of grammatical complexity -- 1.1. Tolerating complexity, or Squinting at Dali's Lincoln -- 1.1.1. Resolution -- 1.1.2. Core and periphery -- 1.1.3. On explanation in linguistics: beyond the core and the periphery -- 1.2. The logic of complexity -- 1.3. Formal complexity -- competence -- 1.3.1. Markedness -- 1.3.2. Derivational economy -- 1.3.3. Syntactic complexity -- 1.4. Processing complexity -- 1.5. Other notions of complexity -- 1.5.1. Surprisal -- 1.5.2. Optimality theory -- 2. The architecture of constructions -- 2.1. Constructions -- 2.2. Correspondences -- 2.2.1. Representing constructions -- 2.2.2. VP -- 2.2.3. Meaning -- 2.3. Constructional complexity -- 2.3.1. Regularities and idiosyncrasies in the constructional lexicon -- 2.3.2. Coverage -- 2.3.3. Strain -- pt. II English constructions -- 3. Isolating constructional complexity: two case studies -- 3.1. English relatives -- 3.1.1. Inheritance and complexity.

3.1.2. Relatives as constructions -- Sag (1997) -- 3.1.3. Simplifying the description -- 3.1.4. Relative correspondences -- 3.1.5. Appositive and free relatives -- 3.1.6. Summary -- 3.2. Focus inversion -- 3.2.1. Inversion -- 3.2.2.Comparative inversion -- 3.2.3. The subject is l̀ow' -- 3.2.4. Focus inversion as a construction -- 3.2.5. More focus inversion constructions -- 3.2.6. Conclusions -- 4. Constructions and the notion p̀ossible human language' -- 4.1. Sluice-stranding -- 4.1.1. Correspondences for questions -- 4.1.2. Interpreting sluicing -- 4.2.Comparative correlatives -- 4.3. Concessives -- 4.4. Imperatives -- 4.5. Not-topics (not in my car (you won't)) -- 4.6. Summary -- pt. III Processing complexity and grammar -- 5. Reflexes of processing complexity -- 5.1. Universals -- 5.2. Where do universals live? -- 5.3. Islands -- 5.3.1.Complexity factors -- 5.3.2. Grammatical constraint violations -- 5.3.3.Computing correspondences -- 5.4. Parasitic gaps.

5.4.1. Parasitic gap constructions -- 5.4.2.Complexity factors in parasitic gaps -- 5.4.3. Some impossible parasitic gaps -- 5.4.4. Summary: processing gaps -- 5.5.Complex ellipsis -- 5.6. Summary -- pt. IV Acquisition, change, and variation -- 6. Explaining complexity: the learner in the network -- 6.1. The paradox of complexity -- 6.2. Growing complexity -- 6.2.1. Infinitival relatives -- 6.2.2. Preposition-stranding -- 6.3. Maintaining complexity -- 6.3.1. Learning constructions -- 6.3.2. Constructions in contact: viruses in the body linguistic -- 6.4. Conclusions and perspectives -- 7. Constructional complexity and change -- 7.1. Change as explanation -- 7.2. Derivations -- 7.2.1. Affix hopping -- 7.2.2. The shift to structure: I0 -- 7.3. English constructions -- 7.3.1. Some core constructions -- 7.3.2. Ordering the correspondences -- 7.3.3. Constructional domains -- 7.3.4.do-support -- 7.4. Tracing the changes -- 7.4.1. Periphrastic do.

7.4.2. Growth of English do-support -- 7.4.3. Transition to SAI -- 7.5. Summary -- 8. Integrating constructions, complexity, and change -- 8.1. CWG verb clusters -- 8.2. Derivational accounts -- 8.3. Optimality accounts -- 8.4.A constructional account -- 8.5. Two biases -- 8.6. Clusters in the network -- 8.7. Summary.

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