{"product_id":"explaining-syntax","title":"Explaining Syntax","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis book brings together many of Peter Culicover's most significant observations on the nature of syntax and its place within the architecture of human language. Over four decades he has sought to understand the cognitive foundations of  linguistic theory and the place of  syntactic theory in explaining how language works. This has led him  to specific proposals regarding the proper scope of  syntactic theory and to a re-examination of the empirical basis of\n\u003cbr\u003esyntactic analyses, which reflect judgements reflecting not only linguistic competence but the complexity of the computations  involved in  acquiring and using language.  After a brief\n\u003cbr\u003ea retrospective the author opens the book with the Simpler Syntax Hypothesis, an article written with Ray Jackendoff,  that proposes significant restrictions on the scope of the syntactic component of the grammar. The work is then divided into parts concerned broadly with representations, structures, and computation. The chapters are provided with contextual headnotes and footnote references to subsequent work, but are otherwise printed essentially as they first appeared. \n\u003cbr\u003ePeter Culicover's lively and original perspectives on syntax and grammar will appeal to all theoretical linguists and their advanced students.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Oxford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44156676997358,"sku":"9780199660230","price":298.57,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0630\/9612\/7726\/files\/9780199660230.jpg?v=1706218931","url":"https:\/\/bookland.com.au\/products\/explaining-syntax","provider":"Book Land AU","version":"1.0","type":"link"}