Cross-linguistic variation and efficiency / Prof. John A. Hawkins.
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TextSeries: Oxford linguisticsPublisher: Oxford, UK ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2014Copyright date: ©2014Edition: First editionDescription: 1 online resource (xx, 271 pages) : illustrationsContent type: - text
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- 9780191748547
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- P291 .H395 2014eb
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 240-257) and indexes.
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""Cover""; ""Cross-linguistic Variation and Efficiency""; ""Copyright""; ""Dedication""; ""Contents""; ""Preface""; ""List of Figures and Tables""; ""List of Abbreviations""; ""1: Language variation and the Performance-Grammar Correspondence Hypothesis""; ""1.1 The Performance-Grammar Correspondence Hypothesis""; ""1.2 Examples of proposed performance-grammar correspondences""; ""1.3 Predictions and consequences of the Performance-Grammar Correspondence Hypothesis""; ""2: Three general efficiency principles""; ""2.1 Efficiency principle 1: Minimize Domains""
""2.2 Efficiency principle 2: Minimize Forms""""2.2.1 GreenbergÂ?s markedness hierarchies""; ""2.2.2 Wasow et al. Â?s relativizer omission data""; ""2.2.3 Gaps and resumptive pronouns in relative clauses""; ""2.3 Efficiency principle 3: Maximize Online Processing""; ""2.3.1 Fillers First""; ""2.3.2 Topics First""; ""2.3.3 Other linear precedence asymmetries""; ""2.4 The relationship between complexity and efficiency""; ""2.5 Competing efficiencies in variation data""; ""2.5.1 Extraposition: Good for some phrases, often bad for others""; ""2.5.2 Competing head orderings for complex phrases""
""2.5.3 Complex inflections and functional categories benefit online processing""""2.5.4 Interim conclusions""; ""3: Some current issues in language processing and the performance-grammar relationship""; ""3.1 Ease of processing in relation to efficiency""; ""3.2 Production versus comprehension""; ""3.3 Online versus acceptability versus corpus data""; ""3.4 Locality versus antilocality effects""; ""3.5 The relevance of grammatical data for psycholinguistic models""; ""3.6 Efficiency in ChomskyÂ?s Minimalist Program""; ""3.6.1 Internal computations versus performance""
""3.6.2 Further issues""""4: The conventionalization of processing efficiency""; ""4.1 Grammaticalization and processing""; ""4.2 The grammaticalization of definiteness marking""; ""4.3 The grammaticalization of syntactic rules""; ""4.4 The mechanisms of change""; ""5: Word order patterns: Head ordering and (dis)harmony""; ""5.1 Head ordering and adjacency in syntax""; ""5.2 MiD effects in the performance of head-initial languages""; ""5.3 MiD effects in head-final languages""; ""5.4 GreenbergÂ?s word order correlations and other domain minimizations""
""5.5 Explaining grammatical exceptions and unpredicted patterns""""5.6 Disharmonic word orders""; ""5.7 The timing of phrasal constructions and attachments""; ""5.8 Predictions for disharmonic word orders""; ""5.8.1 Structure (5.4)""; ""5.8.2 Structure (5.3)""; ""5.8.3 Structure (5.2) (head finality)""; ""5.8.4 Conclusions on word order disharmony""; ""6: The typology of noun phrase structure""; ""6.1 Crosslinguistic variation in NP syntax""; ""6.2 Constructibility hypotheses""; ""6.2.1 NP construction""; ""6.2.2 Lexical differentiation for parts of speech""
This title argues that major patterns of variation across languages are structured by general principles of efficiency in language use and communication, an approach that has far-reaching theoretical consequences for issues such as ease of processing, language universals, complexity, and competing and cooperating principles.
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